Full Name: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Nickname: Bertrand Russell

Father: John Russell (1842-1876)
Mother: Katherine Louisa Stanley(1842-1884)
Wife: Alys Pearsall Smith (m. 1894, div. 1921)
Wife: Dora Winifred Black ( m. 1921, div. 1935)
Wife: Patricia Helen Spence (m. 1936, div. 1952)
Wife: Edith Finch (b. m. 15-Dec-1952, d. 1978)
Children: Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, Lady Katherine Tait, John Russell, 4th Earl Russell, Harriet Ruth Russell

Date of Birth: 18 May 1872
Birth Place: Trellech, Monmouthshire, UK
Date of Death: 2 February 1970 (aged 97)
Death Place: Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, UK
Cause of Death: Influenza

Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered in Wales)
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Mathematician, Philosopher, Writer
Lecturer: Mathematics, London School of Economics (1896-99)
Lecturer: Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1899-1916)
Professor: Philosophy, the University of California at Los Angeles (1939-40)
Professor: City University of New York (1940)
Fellow: Trinity College, Cambridge University (1946-70)
Awards: Order of Merit (1949), Nobel Prize in Literature (1950)
Nationality: British
Education: Trinity College, Cambridge (1890 – 1893), University of Toronto Mississauga

Main Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy.

Notable Ideas: Analytic Philosophy, Logical Atomism, Theory of Descriptions, Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description, Russell's Paradox, Russell's Teapot

British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) won Nobel Prize in Literature (1950). He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain. His parents died when he was very young and he was brought up by his grandmother, the widow of John Russell (1792-1878), who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Russell obtain a first-class honours degree in mathematics and philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1893. During the developing and innovative days of his life, he discovered Percy Bysshe Shelley’s work. In 1894, he got married to Alys Pearsall Smith. In 1895, became a Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Russell was appointed as a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge 1899. In 1903 he published his first important book on mathematical logic, The Principles of Mathematics. In 1908, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Divorced Alys and married Dora Black in 1921. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. In his final years, Russell lived with his fourth wife, Edith Finch, in Penrhyndeudraeth, where he wrote three volumes of Autobiography (1967-69). Bertrand Russell died on 2nd February 1970.

Author of Books:
  • German Social Democracy (1896)
  • An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897)
  • A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz (1900)
  • The Principles of Mathematics (1902)
  • Philosophical Essays (1910)
  • Principia Mathematica (1910-13, three volumes; with Alfred North Whitehead)
  • The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
  • Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)
  • Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916)
  • Political Ideals (1917)
  • Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918)
  • Theory and Practice of Bolshevism (1919)
  • Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)
  • The Analysis of Mind (1921)
  • A Free Man's Worship (1923)
  • The ABC of Relativity (1925)
  • Our Knowledge of the External World (1926)
  • On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926)
  • The Analysis of Matter (1927)
  • An Outline of Philosophy (1927)
  • Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
  • Sceptical Essays (1928)
  • Marriage and Morals (1929)
  • The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
  • The Scientific Outlook (1931)
  • Education and the Social Order (1932)
  • In Praise of Idleness (1935)
  • Power: A New Social Analysis (1938)
  • An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1940)
  • A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
  • Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948)
  • Authority and the Individual (1949)
  • The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1949)
  • Unpopular Essays (1950)
  • The Impact of Science upon Society (1952)
  • Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954)
  • Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950 (1956)
  • Portraits From Memory and Other Essays (1956)
  • My Philosophical Development (1959)
  • The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903–1959 (1961)
  • Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1962)
  • War Crimes in Vietnam (1966)
  • The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-69, three volumes)
  • Dear Bertrand Russell (1969)
  • Essays in Analysis (1973, posthumous)
  • Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 1 (1992, posthumous)
  • Russell on Ethics (1999, posthumous)
  • Russell on Religion (1999, posthumous)
  • Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 2 (2001, posthumous)
  • Russell on Metaphysics (2003, posthumous)