Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell

Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, FBA (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.[1] 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.

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The Right Honourable The Earl Russell FBA
Lord Russell at the Liberal Democrat Federal Conference in Brighton, September 2003
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 21 March 1988 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 4th Earl Russell
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 14 October 2004
Election	1999
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	The 10th Earl of Glasgow
Personal details
Born	(1937-04-15)15 April 1937 Harting, West Sussex, England, UK
Died	14 October 2004(2004-10-14) (aged 67) London (Park Royal), England, UK
Political party	Liberal Democrats (1988–2004)
Other political affiliations	Labour Liberal
Spouse	Elizabeth Sanders ​ ​ (m. 1962; died 2003)​
Parent(s)	Bertrand Russell Patricia Spence
Alma mater	Oxford University
Occupation	Politician, historian
Profession	Academic

Educated at Eton (King's Scholar) and Merton College, Oxford,[2] 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.