Person Russell; Bertrand Arthur William (1872 - 1970); 3rd Earl Russell; logician and philosopher Russell Bertrand Arthur William logician and philosopher 1872 - 1970 British Male Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, England, United Kingdom 18 May 1872 18720518 His home, Plas Penrhyn, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales, United Kingdom 02 February 1970 19700202

philosopher; journalist; political campaigner Metaphysics Ethics Epistemology Logic Philosophy Mathematics Mathematical logic Education: Educated privately; Trinity College, Cambridge (1890-1894) Career: Taught German social democracy, London School of Economics (1896); published essays and books on mathematics (1897-1913); Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge (1910); actively pacifist duing WWI (1914-1918); dismissed from Trinity College following his conviction under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (1916); imprisoned in Brixton Prison for six months for publicly lecturing against inviting the United States to enter the war on the United Kingdom's side (1918); reinstated to Trinity College, Cambridge (1919) then resigned (1920); Tarner Lecturer (1926); Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago (1938); Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles (1939); Lecturer, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (1941-1942); Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1944-1949); Involved in a plane crash en route to Norway (1948); released Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955); President of the first Pugwash Conference (1957); becomes founding President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1958); imprisoned in connection with anti-nuclear protests (1961); established the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (1963); launched the International War Crimes Tribunal (1966). died of acute bronchitis. Memberships: Coefficients dining club Aristotelian Society (President 1911) Medals and prizes: De Morgan Medal 1932 Nobel Prize (Literature) 1950 Kalinga Prize 1957 Jerusalem Prize 1963 Honours: OM 1949 Parents: John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842–1876), eldest son of the first Earl Russell, previously Lord John Russell, and Kate (d. 1874 of diptheria), daughter of the second Baron Stanley of Alderley. Paternal grandfather: Lord John Russell, later 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878). Siblings: John Francis Stanley Russel, whom Bertrand succeeded as 3rd Earl (March 1931) and sister Rachel, who died at age of four. Spouse: 1) (m. 13 December 1894; div. 1921) Alys Whitall (c.1867–1951), daughter of Robert Pearsall Smith, American Quaker; 2) (m. 1921; div. 1935) Dora Winifred Black, daughter of Sir Frederick Black; 3) ​(m. 1936; div. 1952) Patricia Helen Spence; 4) ​(m. 1952) Edith Finch (d. 1978). Children: From second marriage: John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell (1921–1987) and Lady Katharine Jane Russell (1923–2021); from third marriage: Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004). Distinguished for his researches concerning the Principles of Mathematics and the Mathematical Treatment of the Logic of Relations. Credited as one of the founder of analytic philosophy. Influenced mathematics, logic, and set theory and championed logicism. Noted for his pacifism and anti-nuclear protests and his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War. Medals and prizes: Sylvester Medal 1934 Fellow 07/05/1908 36 Edward Divers Robert Stawell Ball Karl Pearson Henry Head George Howard Darwin Ernest William Hobson William Burnside Andrew Russell Forsyth Alfred North Whitehead Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell, First published Thu Dec 7, 1995; substantive revision Tue Oct 15, 2024, [URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/; last accessed: 13/08/2025] Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1973 vol 19 pp 583-620, plate, by G Kreisel References: Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 'At the Feet of Whitehead', review of Victor Lowe, Alfred North Whitehead. The Man and His Work. Vol 1 (1861-1910), Vol 2 (1910-1947) in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 271-276 Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 'Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) After Twenty Years', essay review in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 280-306, plate Nicholas Griffin and Albert C Lewis, 'Bertrand Russell's Mathematical Education' in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 51-71 I Gratton-Guinness, 'The Royal Society's Financial Support of the Publication of Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 89-104 G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1973.0021 RCN 49222 RCN 49223 RCN 15824 RCN 29354 RCN 20379 RCN R61640 RCN 11429 RCN R61645 RCN R61631 RCN 20376 RCN 20375 RCN 15822 RCN 20378 RCN 10808 RCN 15447 RCN R61633 RCN R61634 RCN 20380 RCN 12263 RCN 20381 RCN 20142 RCN R61635 RCN 20383 RCN 20384 RCN R61636 RCN R61637 RCN 15825 RCN R61638 RCN 20385 RCN 23347 RCN R61639 RCN 15826 RCN 15827 RCN 34492 RCN 20388 RCN R61641 RCN 20389 RCN R61642 RCN 20390 RCN 10248 RCN R61643 RCN R61644 RCN 20391 RCN R61646 RCN 15828 RCN R61647 RCN R61648 RCN R63164 RCN R61650 RCN R79122 RCN 12331 RCN 43452 RCN 15832 RCN 9976 RCN R61652 RCN 59344 RCN R61654 RCN 20372 RCN 20373 RCN 20374 RCN 15823 RCN R61629 RCN R61630 RCN 21826 RCN R61628 RCN 19645 RCN 29355 RCN 20377 RCN 11009 RCN R61632 RCN 20382 RCN R70132 RCN 20387 RCN 20386 RCN 12219 RCN 10349 RCN R61649 RCN R61651 RCN 15831 RCN 15829 RCN 15830 RCN 16437 RCN 9977 RCN R61653 RCN R64499 RCN 1687 RCN 9978 RCN 21125 RCN 23206 RCN 20392 RCN 34479 RCN R61655 RCN R61656 RCN R61657 RCN 20393 RCN R61658 18 May 1872 - 2 Feb 1970 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. 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