Bertrand Russell

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00:00The Nobel Prize

00:15There are two motives for reading a book.

00:18One that you enjoyed.

00:20The other that you can boast about it.

00:23Bertrand Russell

00:26The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 was awarded to Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell

00:34in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.

00:44Bertrand Russell was born at Trellec on the 18th of May 1872.

00:50His parents were Viscount Amberlay and Catherine, daughter of the second Baron Stanley of Alderlay.

00:58At the age of three he was left an orphan.

01:01His father had wished him to be brought up as an agnostic.

01:05To avoid this he was made a ward of court and brought up by his grandmother.

01:11Instead of being sent to school he was taught by governesses and tutors and thus acquired a perfect knowledge of French and German.

01:20In 1890 he went into residence at Trinity College, Cambridge.

01:25And after being a very high wrangler and obtaining a first class with distinction in philosophy,

01:31he was elected a fellow of his college in 1895.

01:35But he had already left Cambridge in the summer of 1894 and for some months was attache at the British Embassy in Paris.

01:45In December 1894 he married Miss