Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell
Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, (15 April 1937 – 14 October 2004), was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell. He was also a great-grandson of the 19th-century British Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his half-brother, John Russell, on 16 December 1987. Both sons were named after their father's great friend Joseph Conrad, who was also the 4th Earl's godfather.Educated at Eton (King's Scholar) and Merton College, Oxford, Conrad Russell was an academic historian working 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.
After his death from complications of emphysema, Russell was succeeded as Earl by his elder son, Nicholas, who died in 2014 and was succeeded as Earl by his brother, John, who is also a politician. Provided by Wikipedia
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The origins of the English Civil War; by Russell, Conrad
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Parliaments and English politics, 1621-1629 / by Russell, Conrad
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The causes of the English Civil War / by Russell, Conrad
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Academic freedom / by Russell, Conrad
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The crisis of Parliaments: English history 1509-1660. by Russell, Conrad
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King James VI and I and his English Parliaments : the Trevelyan lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge 1995 / by Russell, Conrad
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Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 / by Russell, Conrad
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Academic freedom / by Russell, Conrad
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