[1] He was the great-grandson of the 19th-century British Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell.
[3] 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 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.
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.