Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell is not a guarantee against losing an academic job for holding very unpopular opinions on non-academic subjects, as Bertrand Russell in fact did twice. 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 also a great-grandson of the 19th century British Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his half-brother, John Conrad Russell, on 16 December 1987. Both sons
John Bertrand (sailor, born 1946) 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 the world Etchells class sailing championships. He is a life member of both the Royal Brighton Yacht Club in Melbourne, and the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club. John Bertrand was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He wrote "Born to Win","The Power of a Vision," about