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Katharine Louisa (Viscountess Amberley) “Kate” <I>Stanley</I> Russell

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Katharine Louisa (Viscountess Amberley) “Kate” Stanley Russell

Birth
England
Death
28 Jun 1874 (aged 32)
England
Burial
Chenies, Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, England Add to Map
Plot
Russell family vault, according to a citation of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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A suffragist and early advocate of birth control in the United Kingdom.

On 8 November 1864, she married John Russell, Viscount Amberley, the son of the former prime minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, and his wife Frances. Their first child, John Francis Stanley, was born the next year and followed by twins, Rachel Lucretia and her stillborn sister, in 1868. The couple's last child, Bertrand Arthur William, was born in 1872. Bertrand became a noted mathematician and philosopher.

Katharine died from diptheria. Her body was cremated and eventually interred in Chenies Churchyard, in the Russell family vault.
A suffragist and early advocate of birth control in the United Kingdom.

On 8 November 1864, she married John Russell, Viscount Amberley, the son of the former prime minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, and his wife Frances. Their first child, John Francis Stanley, was born the next year and followed by twins, Rachel Lucretia and her stillborn sister, in 1868. The couple's last child, Bertrand Arthur William, was born in 1872. Bertrand became a noted mathematician and philosopher.

Katharine died from diptheria. Her body was cremated and eventually interred in Chenies Churchyard, in the Russell family vault.


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