John Francis Russell, 7th Earl Russell (born 19 November 1971) is a British photographer and

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politician.

Early life

The younger son of

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 al ...

, a professor of history at

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, and his wife Elizabeth Franklin Sanders, Russell is also a grandson of the philosopher

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...

and a great-great-grandson of

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and a ...

, a Liberal

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. He was educated at the

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.''

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'', volume 3, 2003, page 3439 As a teenager, he took adventure training holidays at Ty'n y Berth, a Wide Horizons centre in Wales, and he later became an advocate of providing disadvantaged children with such opportunities.

Career

Russell works as a freelance photographer, specializing in "political photography, event photography, charity commissions and landscapes". In 2006, he was in-house photographer for ''

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'' magazine and also works for the Liberal Democrats, the

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, other charities, and individuals. He publishes work at Zenfolio. Russell became chairman of the Lewisham Liberal Democrats and went on to serve as a Liberal Democrat councillor for Forest Hill on Lewisham Borough Council from 2006 to 2010, chairing its Overview and Scrutiny committee. In 2012 he was his party's candidate for the Greenwich and Lewisham seat on the

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. In 2006, Russell joined the board of Wide Horizons and chaired it from 2012. It went into administration and ceased trading in 2018.DISPOSAL OF FORMER WIDE HORIZONS OUTDOOR EDUCATION SITES IN KENT & WALES
lewisham.gov.uk On 17 August 2014, on the death of his older brother

Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell Nicholas Lyulph Russell, 6th Earl Russell (12 September 196817 August 2014), styled Viscount Amberley between 1987 and 2004, was the elder son of Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell and Elizabeth Russell (formerly Elizabeth Sanders). He succeeded ...

, he succeeded as

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(1862) and as Viscount Amberley (1861), both in the

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. In the 2017

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, he stood for the Liberal Democrats in

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, but

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held the seat. In 2022 he stood unsuccessfully for election to

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Arms

References

External links

Professional photography site
1971 births Living people J Earls Russell Place of birth missing (living people) Councillors in the London Borough of Lewisham Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors {{UK-earl-stub