Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist, although he also confessed that his sceptical nature had led him to feel that he had ''never been any of these things, in any profound sense.'' Russell was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom.
