John Russell, 4th Earl Russell
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
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In office 3 February 1970 – 16 December 1987 Hereditary Peerage | |
Preceded by | The 3rd Earl Russell |
Succeeded by | The 5th Earl Russell |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 November 1921 |
Died | 16 December 1987 (aged 66) |
Spouse | Doniphan Lindsay |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | |
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
Education
John Russell was educated at the progressive
Career
Russell had a distinguished early career, working for the FAO among other organisations, but in later life he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.[4] This made him the only person in the United Kingdom to be denied the vote on two counts, first, for being a peer and, second, for being insane. He delivered a speech in the House of Lords on 18 July 1978 that was considered so outlandish that to this day [vague] it was claimed to be the only speech unrecorded by Hansard, although it is included in the online version[5] while lacking the final section that he had written but failed to read aloud after being interrupted.[6][7]
Personal life
He was married on 28 August 1946 to Susan Doniphan Lindsay, daughter of the poet Vachel Lindsay. They were divorced in 1955. They had three daughters: Lady Felicity Anne Russell (born 2 September 1945)[citation needed], Lady Sarah Elizabeth Russell (born 16 January 1946)[citation needed], and Lady Lucy Catherine Russell (21 July 1948 – 11 April 1975). Neither Sarah nor Lucy married or bore children; Felicity had one daughter, Rowan. Like their father and mother, the three daughters had mental illnesses. Lucy, who was Bertrand Russell's favourite grandchild, died from self-immolation, at the age of 26, in the forecourt of a church near Penzance, ostensibly protesting in the cause of world peace.[8] Like her father Lucy was diagnosed with schizophrenia.[4]
Russell was succeeded as Earl by his half-brother, the historian Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell.
References
- ^ Kevin Jackson, Constellation of Genius – 1922: Modernism and All That Jazz, p. 47, footnote 36
- Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Russell, Bertrand (1969). Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1914 - 1944). New York: Bantam Books. p. 327.
- ^ a b Fitzgerald, Michael; Lyons, Viktoria (2005). Asperger Syndrome A Gift Or a Curse?. Nova Biomedical Books. p. 290.
- ^ [1] at column 275.[dead link]
- ^ "Visionary Speech by Earl Russell (Part 3) | Jot101".
- ^ Great British Eccentrics, SD Tucker
- Héctor Abad, The Reasoning Heart. Brick Magazine, No. 88 (Winter, 2012). Retrieved 2016-07-05.
Bibliography
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35875. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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