The Archive · 1920

A Distinguished Visitor

The Hon. Bertrand Russell arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday by the French mail, and after spending a few days here i: proceeding Peking, where he is to take up an appointment in the University as Professor of Philosophy. Mr. Russell, Lecturer and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has attained world-wide celebrity as an exponent of philosophy, and is the author of many brilliant interpretative and original works on the He was 41 years old, and a widower. He leaves one brother, Mr. C. D. Christian, a Jawyer in Meridian, Miss., and two sisters, also in the United States.

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