The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
Harvard's New Professor Was
Their Candidate for Seat
in Parliament.
RY la MAnoUIsE Die FoNTENoI.

III dI 4ldIIlSIlC.
BY IA MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
/ ] ARVARD UNIVERSITIES newly
appointed professor the Hon
Bertrand Russell. only brother
and next heir of the Earl Russell, en-
Joys the distinction of having been the
first candidate to be put forward ar
q parliamentary election in England,
by the militant suffragettes OF Great
Britain. Never before that time had
the National Union OF Womans Suf.
frage. nor any OF tho kindred organi.
cations. run parliamentary candi-
date entirely on their own account
But he was opposed by Henry Chaplin.
n typical Tory squire OF the old
school, whom the Wimbledon division
of London. being strongly Conserve.
tive, preferred to have as their repre-
sentative in the House OF Commons
and consequently Bertrand Russell
was defeated.
1t may be questioned whether the
faculty OF Harvard were aware OF his
pronounced sunrasette sympathies
when they appointed him to a profess
sorship of their university. and
whether they did not lose sight Of
these in considering his other titles
TO note. For he is a very learned man
who. after most distinguished uni
versity career at Cambridge. has been
for number of years past a lecturer
on higher mathematics. philosophy
and moral sciences, ut his alma mater,
making his home at Cambridge. He
has an American wife. a daughter Of r.
Pearsall Smith, OF Philadelphia.
1t may be recalled that Mrs. Der.
trand Russelrs relatives in PhiladeI.
n TN MI
the public In the United States some
years aGo. In an attempt to prevent
Lord Russell from returning TO and
landing in america, On the ground OF
his having served q term of imprison.
ment. after conviction of bigamy by
the House OF Lords. that is 10 say, by
his peers. sitting as the highest trib.
unal of the realm InaSmuch as Lord
Russell, after serving q portion OF his
sentence, received free pardon from
the crown. which had the effect OF
legally obliterating the ignominy OF
his conviction. as, moreover, he re-
tained his membership of the English
bar (Which is quick to rid itself OF
barristers guilty OF crime. or even OF
dishonorable conduct. as. moreover.
he retained his membership of the Re-
form Club and his full rights and pre-.
negatives as hereditary legislator
in the. House OF Lords, tho United
states authorities aid not see their way
to exclude him from the country as
an undesirable alien, and Mrs Ser.
trand Russell's Philadelphia relatives
We're defeated in their object.
The excuse which they put forward
to explain their attitude was the dis.
tress which they had suffered by rca.
son OF the scandal in which Lord Rus
sell had become involved through his
matrimonial ventures. But naturally
the needless hostility which they dis.
played In this connection served to
estrange Professor Bertrand Russell
and his wife from his brother.
1t is only fair to Lord Russell TO
technical. He had, after establishing
Il legal residence in the United states.
obtained a divorce In Nevada from
his first wife. from whom he was al
ready Judicially separated by the Eng
lish tribunals. On the strength OF this
Nevada divorce, he married, in Ameri
ca, a Mrs. Somerville, daughter of tho
late George Cooke, of Cumbernauld.
The English courts declined to recog
nize the Nevada divorce OF Lord Rus
sell. and, on the strength of this, his
first wife had him arrested and charged
with bigamy. for having married again
without being free TO wed.
In fact. there was n good deal OF
popular sympathy in England for Lord
Russell: the more so, that his first
wife, Mabel Scott, had led him n dogs
life, aided and abetted by her mother,
the notorious Lena, Lady Scott. who
brought such shocking and disgrace
full accusations against him, of total
ly unfounded character, that he had
no difficulty in securing her convic-
ton OF criminal libel and her SEN
tence to long term of Imprisonment.
She died bankrupted and disgraccd.
while her daughter, the eX-Countess
Russell, after being divorced by the
English courts, rendered herself
public laughing stock by marrying n
sol distant "Prince Of Modena." who
claimed to he a natural son of tho
Emperor Of Austria. but who turned
out to be an eX-convict. and the son
of an English groom and Belgian
lady's maid. Then she had recourse TO
the music hall stage, where she proved
a failure, and died In a state OF des-
titution. her fato cvoalng little pity.
Lord Russell is very clever, and has
an independent income, besides carry
ing on n very successful business in
the city OF London, as an electrical en-
ginecr lie learned the business from
the ground up after graduating with
honors from Oxford and 1t was while
fitting electrical bells in Lena, Lady
Ec0tt'q b0npe that ha mad. thn