Patricia Russell, Countess Russell was the third wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell, and a significant contributor to his book A History of Western Philosophy.
Background
Countess Russell was born Marjorie Helen Spence in 1910.
Career
She met Bertrand Russell in 1930 when she was a twenty-year-old undergraduate at the University of Oxford, hired by Russell"s second wife Dora Black as a governess. 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.
