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Katharine "Kate" Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley (née Stanley; 3 April 1842 – 28 June 1874) was a British suffragist and an early advocate of birth control in the United Kingdom. A member of the Stanley and Russell families, she was the mother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell .
Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Ravenscroft, a country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, [a] on 18 May 1872, into an influential and liberal family of the British aristocracy. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His parents were Viscount and Viscountess Amberley .
On 13 December 1894, Smith married Bertrand Russell, son of the Viscount and Viscountess Amberley [2] in the Quaker Meeting House in St. Martin's Lane, London, England. They separated in 1911 and divorced in 1921. [3] According to Russell's autobiography, she was also an intimate friend of Walt Whitman. [4]
Dora Winifred Russell, Countess Russell (née Black; 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a campaigner for contraception and peace .
Cleddon Hall, formerly known as Ravenscroft, is a 19th-century Victorian country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales.In the later 19th century it was owned by Lord and Lady Amberley, and their youngest son, the philosopher Bertrand Russell, was born at the hall on 18 May 1872.
His parents, however, had all the remains moved to the Russell family vault at St Michael's, Chenies. [ 1 ] In his will, Amberley named Douglas Spalding and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson as Frank and Bertrand's guardians, not wishing his children to be raised as Christians, [ 12 ] but Lord and Lady Russell successfully contested the stipulation and ...
From a long family line of distinguished Whigs and Liberals, Russell was the son of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell. He was also a great-grandson of the 19th-century Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell. [1] He was named after his father's great friend Joseph Conrad, who was his godfather.
John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell (16 November 1921 – 16 December 1987), styled Viscount Amberley from 1931 to 1970, was the eldest son of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (the 3rd Earl) and his second wife, Dora Black. His middle name was a tribute to the writer Joseph Conrad, whom his father had long admired. [1]