Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell

The Right Honourable Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell (15 April 1937–14 October 2004) was a British historian and politician. He was a son of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, and a great-grandson of the 19th-century British Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

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The Right Honourable - 15 April - 1937 - 14 October - 2004 - British - Bertrand Russell - Whig - Prime Minister - Lord John Russell

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Educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, Conrad Russell was one of the world's leading authorities on 17th-century British history, having extensively written and lectured on parliamentary struggles of the period. Russell was also a passionate advocate of liberalism, from a long family line of distinguished liberals.

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Eton - Merton College, Oxford - Liberalism - Liberals

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