Patricia Russell
Patricia Russell, Countess Russell (1910 – 2004) was the third wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell and a significant contributor to his book A History of Western Philosophy.[1]
Lady Russell was born Marjorie Helen Spence in 1910. As her parents had always wanted a boy, she was known as 'Peter', a nickname she retained throughout her life.[2][3] She met Bertrand Russell in 1930, when he was 58 and she was a 20-year-old undergraduate at the University of Oxford, hired by Russell's second wife Dora Black as a governess. They had an affair and were married at the Midhurst register office on 18 January 1936. They had one son, Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, who became a prominent historian and one of the leading figures in the Liberal Democrat party. They had an acrimonious separation in 1949.[4]
Patricia was a member of the first board of the Harlow Development Corporation, serving from 1947 to 1950.[5]
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References
- Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell. The Ghost of Madness. New York: Free Press. 2000.
- Gibberd, Frederick et al. Harlow: the story of a new town. Stevenage: Publications for Companies. 1980.
- Russell, Bertrand. A History of Western Philosophy. London: Unwin Paperbacks. 1984.
External links
- "Patricia Helen (née Spence), Countess Russell, Third wife of 3rd Earl Russell; daughter of Harry Evelyn Spence". National Portrait Gallery. Details of 12 portraits, 8 of them reproduced
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- The Principles of Mathematics (1903)
- On Denoting (1905)
- Principia Mathematica (1910–1913)
- The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- Why Men Fight (1916)
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)
- Free Thought and Official Propaganda (1922)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
- Marriage and Morals (1929)
- In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)
- Power: A New Social Analysis (1938)
- A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
- My Philosophical Development (1959)
- Alys Pearsall Smith (wife, 1894–1921)
- Dora Russell (wife, 1921–35)
- Patricia Russell (wife, 1936–51)
- Edith Finch Russell (wife, 1952–70)
- John Russell, 4th Earl Russell (son)
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (son)
- Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (brother)
- John Russell, Viscount Amberley (father)
- Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley (mother)
- John Stuart Mill (godfather)
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (paternal grandfather)
- Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley (maternal grandmother)
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