Patricia Russell, (1910 - ??), was the third wife of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a significant contributor to Russell's work, History of Western Philosophy.
Russell met Spence in 1930 when she was a twenty-year old undergraduate at the University of Oxford, hired by Russell's second wife Dora Black as a governess. As her parents had always wanted a boy, she was known as 'Peter'.[1] Russell had an affair with her, eventually marrying her at Midhurst registry office on 18 January 1936.
Russell and Peter had one son, Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, who became a prominent historian and one of the leading figures in the Liberal Democrat party.
They had an acrimonious separation in 1949.[2]