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 to the Earldom of Russell on his father's death on 14 October 2004.

Like his grandfather, Bertrand Russell, he was an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, from his teenage years until his death.

Career

Russell was the disability rights campaigner for the Labour Party and was campaigns officer for the Royal National Institute of the Blind as well as co-chairman and later sole chairman 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 Metropolitan Police Service. He was a regional board member of the Co-operative Group and was active in the Co-operative Party, as well as SERA and Transport 2000.

Personal life and death

He lived with his fiancée Georgina Farrer in Leytonstone, until his sudden death from a presumed heart attack on 17 August 2014, aged 45. A post mortem later confirmed the cause of death to have been due to thrombosis.

Arms

References

  • Cann Hall election results 2010
  • Declaration of interests, including memberships of CND bodies