11 Facts About Rupert Crawshay-Williams

Rupert Crawshay-Williams was a music critic, teacher, writer, and philosopher.

Rupert Crawshay-Williams was born in London on 23 February 1908.

Rupert Crawshay-Williams's younger sister Gillian, born in 1910, was an artist and campaigner for nuclear disarmament, who became Lady Greenwood of Rossendale.

Rupert Crawshay-Williams was educated at Repton School and Queen's College, Oxford.

Until 1939, Rupert Crawshay-Williams worked as a music critic, before relocating in 1942 to Portmeirion, North Wales, where he taught English, French and mathematics.

Rupert Crawshay-Williams remained in Wales for the rest of his life.

In 1970, Rupert Crawshay-Williams published an affectionate biography of his friend entitled Russell Remembered.

Rupert Crawshay-Williams died on 12 June 1977 alongside his wife, Elizabeth, at their home.

Elizabeth, affected by paralysis and given a terminal diagnosis, and Rupert Crawshay-Williams opted to die together, swallowing a lethal dose of sleeping tablets.

Rupert Crawshay-Williams' best known work is 1957's Methods and Criteria of Reasoning, in which he attempted to explain "why so many theoretical and philosophical controversies seem to be intractable".

Rupert Crawshay-Williams is best remembered today as influential in the fields of argumentation theory, rhetoric and communications studies, and on the work of Stephen Toulmin, Lucy Olbrechts-Tyteca, and Chaim Perelman.