People from Monmouthshire

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Bertrand Russell, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Charles Rolls, Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, Howard Thomas, Cadoc, Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, Gore Ouseley, David Broome, William Herbert, Phil North, Angus McBean, John Crandall, Dick Power, Norman Harris, Dan Cherry, Jack Jones, Graham Kingston, Lyndon Jones, James Langworth, Gilbert Morgan, Edward Owen, William Ouseley, Bert Hodges, Richie Thomas, Willie Whitehill, Leslie Jenkins, William Marsh, Noel Jones, John Collins, Tom Jones, Sue Bale, Richard Morgan, William de Cantelou, Seisyll ap Dyfnwal, Edward E. Clive, Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet, Henry Avray Tipping, Henry FitzMiles, William Prichard, William Camden Edwards, Anthony Oliver. Excerpt: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life, he imagined himself in turn a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense. Though he spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales, and died there at the age of 97. Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy." His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, and philosophy, especially philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed free trade and anti-imperialism. Russell went to prison for his pacifist activism during World War I. Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then criticised Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the United States of America's involvement in the Vietnam War, and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament. In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." Bertrand Russell was born on 18 May 1872 at Ravenscroft, Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales, into a liberal family of the British aristocracy. His paternal grandfather, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, was the third son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and had twice been asked by Queen Victoria to form a government, serving her as Prime Minist von Source: Wikipedia