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| Relationship | Name | Date - Period |
|---|---|---|
| Lover | Ottoline Morrell | 1873-1938 |
| Friend | G E Moore | 1873-1958 |
| Friend/Critic | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951 |
| Brother-in-Law | Bernhard Berenson | |
| Student | T S Eliot | |
| Brother-in-Law | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946 |
| Group | Apostles | |
| Group | Ottoline's |
| Where | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
Trelleck, Gwent | Birth place | 18 May 1872 |
Trinity College Cambridge | Student | |
Paris | British Embassy Attaché | 1894-1895 |
| Trinity College Cambridge | Fellow | 1895 |
| Russia | To meet: Lenin, Trotsky and Gorky | 1918? |
| Peking | Teacher | 1920-1921 |
| Telegraph House, Harting, Petersfield | Residence/School (Progressive) | 1927-1937? |
| City College, New York, United States of America | lecturer | contract terminated in 1940, |
| Plas Penrhyn, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire | Residence | 1960 |
| Title | Genre | Date - Edition |
|---|---|---|
| German Social Democracy | 1896 | |
| Foundations of Geometry | Essay | 1897 |
| Philosophy of Leibniz | 1900 | |
| The Principles of Mathematics | 1903 | |
| Philosophical Essays | Essays | 1910 |
| Principia Mathematics | 1910 | |
| Problems of Philosophy | 1911 | |
| Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy | 1914 | |
| Principles of Social Reconstruction | 1917 | |
| Mysticism and Logic | 1918 | |
| Roads to Freedom | 1918 | |
| Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy | 1919 | |
| The Practise and Theory of Bolshevism | 1920 | |
| The Analysis of Mind | 1921 | |
| The Problem of China | 1922 | |
| The A B C of Atoms | 1923 | |
| The Prospects of Industrial Civilization | 1923 | |
| Icarus | 1924 | |
| What I Believe | 1925 | |
| The A B C of Relativity | 1925 | |
| On Education | 1926 | |
| The Analysis of Matter | 1927 | |
| An Outline of Philosophy | 1927 | |
| Sceptical Essays | Essays | 1928 |
| Marriage and Morals | 1929 | |
| The Conquest of Happiness | 1930 | |
| The Scientific Outlook | 1931 | |
| Education and the Social Order | 1932 | |
| Freedom and Organisation 1814-1914 | 1934 | |
| In Praise of Idleness | 1935 | |
| Which Way to Peace? | 1936 | |
| The Amberley Papers | 1937 | |
| Power: A New Social Analysis | 1938 | |
| An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth | 1940 | |
| History of Western Philosophy | 1946 | |
| Human Knowledge its Scope and Limits | 1948 | |
| Authority and the Individual | 1949 | |
| Unpopular Essays | Essays | 1950 |
| New Hopes for a Changing World | 1951 | |
| The Impact of Science upon Society | 1952 | |
| Satan In the Suburbs | Short Stories | 1953 |
| Nightmares of the Eminent Persons | 1954 | |
| Human Society in Ethics and Politics | 1954 | |
| Portraits from Memory | 1956 | |
| Why I am not a Christian | Essay | 1957 |
| Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare | 1958 | |
| My Philosophical Development | 1959 | |
| Wisdom of the West | 1959 | |
| Autobiography | 1967-1969 |
Biographical Details and Notes
Orphaned when young he was raised by his grandmother, the widow of Lord John Russell, a Liberal MP and later on Prime Minister, the 1st Earl, Bertrand became the 3rd Earl.
Educated at Trinity College Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1895 which he later lost in 1916 due to his facifism, for which he was imprisoned in 1918.
His fellowship was restored in 1944.
Awarded the nobel prize for literature in 1950.
He was imprisoned again in 1969 for his part in a sit down protest in Whitehall, London.
His mother was the daughter of Baron Stanley of Alderley
1st Wife: Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith, sister of Logan Pearsall Smith. Married in1894, marriage was dissolved in 1921.
2nd Wife: Dora Winifred, MBE author of The Right to be Happy pulished in 1927, she was the daughter of Sir Frederick Black. They had one son and one daughter. Married in 1921, marriage dissolved in 1935.
3rd Wife: Patricia Helen Spence, they had one son. Married in 1936, marriage dissolved in 1925
4th Wife: Edith Finch, daughter of Edward Bronson Finch of New York.
His contract with City College New York was terminated in 1940 on grounds that he was an enemy of religion and morality, he won substantial damages for wrongful dismissal.
He returned to England after WWII and was honoured with an OM, he gave the first BBC Reith Lectures in 1949.
He became involved in CND from 1949, he was involved in the Committee of 100 undertaking correspondence with world leaders on his views
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