DORA RUSSELL, 92
WAS BRITISH SOCIAL ACTIVIST
Author: Associated Press
Date: Monday, June 2, 1986
Page: 43
Section: OBITUARY
PORTHCURNO, England -- Social activist Dora Russell, the second of
philosopher Bertrand Russell's four wives, died of a stroke at her clifftop
home in this Cornwall village, her housekeeper said yesterday. She was 92.
Mrs. Russell suffered a series of strokes in recent weeks and died
Saturday night after another attack earlier in the day, said the housekeeper,
Petrena Oxenholm.
Mrs. Russell, a lifelong campaigner for socialist causes, was twice an
unsuccessful candidate for Parliament for the Labor Party. During the 1920s
she was influential in persuading the party to adopt contraception as a
political issue.
She later was identified with the antinuclear movement and appeared at a
rally as recently as January at a British Air Force base. Bertrand Russell was
the first president of Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Mrs. Russell, the daughter of an Edwardian civil servant, was educated at
Cambridge University's Girton College.
She met Russell, a brilliant philosopher and mathematician, when he
lectured at Cambridge. They married in 1921 and had three children, all of
whom are still alive. The marriage ended in 1935.
Russell, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the most
influential thinkers of the 20th century, died in 1970 at the age of 97.
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Russell were not complete yesterday.
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