Let us not forget that Bertrand was a grandson of the great Whig/Liberal Prime Minister Lord John Russell, one of the triumvirate alongside Palmerston and Gladstone. His son, Conrad Russell, who sadly died in 2004, was a ferocious Liberal Parliamentarian, and a great advert for the virtues of the hereditary peerage. He was also a distinguished historian of the English civil wars. A talented family, shall we say.