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 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 ...

and Elizabeth Russell (formerly Elizabeth Sanders). He succeeded to the Earldom of Russell on his father's death on 14 October 2004. Like his grandfather,

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, ...

, he was an active member of the

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, from his teenage years until his death. By the

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, all but 92

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were removed from the

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– the abolition of which Russell advocated so he did not sit in the Lords.

Career

Russell was the

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campaigner for the Labour Party and was campaigns officer for the

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as well as Co-Chair and later sole Chair of DANDA:Developmental Adult Neurodiversity Association, an entirely user-led and user-run organisation, two of whose members and trustee-directors successfully asked the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) to set up a Neurodiversity Group, which was succeeded by the DRC Neurodiversity and Autism Action Group (NAAG), the only systematic human rights examination of Neurodivergent Rights in the world to date by an official human rights body of national or international standing, reporting in 2007. He also trained the

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. He was a regional board member of the

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and was active in the

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, as well as SERA and Transport 2000. He was also a longstanding national executive member of the

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. He was actively involved in Disability Labour and was a former chair of the group. He was Disability Labour's first representative on the Labour Party's

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, the

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's equalities sub-committee and the Socialist Societies executive. On 7 May 2010 Russell was elected as Labour

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for the

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ward of

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, a position he held for a four-year term until May 2014.

Personal life and death

He lived with his fiancée Georgina Farrer in

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, until his sudden death from a presumed heart attack on 17 August 2014, aged 45. An autopsy later confirmed the cause of death to have been due to a thrombosis.

Titles

* The Hon. Nicholas Russell (1968–1987) * Viscount Amberley (1987–2004) * ''The Rt. Hon.'' The Earl Russell (2004–2010) * Councillor ''The Rt. Hon.'' The Earl Russell (2010-2014) * ''The Rt. Hon.'' The Earl Russell (2014)

References

External links

Cann Hall election results 2010

Declaration of interests, including memberships of CND bodies
{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl 1968 births 2014 deaths Earls Russell Labour Party (UK) councillors Councillors in the London Borough of Waltham Forest Co-operative Party politicians People educated at William Ellis School

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