Comments by "Blackadder75" (@Blackadder75) on "Life in the 1800s" channel.

  1. his grandmother was a religious zealot, she would probably thing it was a devil's device
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  2.  @Kingx90  lol, he certainly did not have less schooling than you.... maybe you should read his biography.. the boy taught himself to write in latin at age 12 to be able to write a diary his grandmother couldn;t read. at 18 he went to Cambridge to study Mathematics
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  3. that is only when your family doesn't 'breed' until they are in their 40s (males) My Napoleon era forefather is 9 generations ago, I am born in 1975
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  4.  @ednorton47  but Countess Russell had 8 servants to do all that.... why couldn't she have tea in the afternoon, in a cosy chair?
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  5.  @GreenTeaViewer  I read a biography of mr Russell, but it was a bit in jest, his grandmother was a conservative puritan who forced her religious beliefs onto others (including the grandchildren) against their will and the will of their late mother . However she was not anti science and accepted evolution
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  6.  @InfoArtistJKatTheGoodInfoCafe  the grandfather barely ever spoke to young Bertrand and died when he was 6. the raising was done by grandmother
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