Patricia Russell, Countess Russell Patricia Russell, Countess Russell Patricia Russell, Countess Russell (1910–2004) was the third wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell, and a significant contributor to his book "A History of Western Philosophy". Countess Russell was born Marjorie Helen Spence in 1910. As her parents had always wanted a boy, she was known as 'Peter'. 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 an affair and were married at the Midhurst register office on 18 January 1936. They had one son, Conrad Sebastian
John Bertrand (sailor, born 1946) the tactics employed by Bertrand in the lead-up to Australia II's famous triumph in 1983. Bertrand is the chairman of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame (2005+) and The Alannah and Madeline Foundation (2001+). He is also the President of Swimming Australia (Oct 2013+). John Bertrand (sailor, born 1946) John Edwin Bertrand (born 20 December 1946) is a yachtsman from Australia, who skippered "Australia II" to victory in the 1983 America's Cup, ending 132 years of American supremacy. Bertrand won the bronze medal in the Finn competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. In 2010 and 2016, he won