Bertrand's Brother

The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell

New Hardback Illustrated

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The grandson of the Prime Minister Lord Russell and elder brother of the philosopher Bertrand, Frank Russell (1865–1931) was a man of bewildering contradictions. Drawing on family papers and public records, this first biography reveals him to have been both a moralist and a notorious adulterer – sent down from Oxford for homosexual relations, he was tried for bigamy in the House of Lords in 1901 and ended his life bankrupt.

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