Cambridge Apostles

E4572

intellectual society secret society student society

The Cambridge Apostles was an elite, secretive intellectual society at the University of Cambridge whose members included prominent philosophers, writers, and politicians such as Bertrand Russell.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Cambridge Apostles canonical	13
Cambridge Conversazione Society	1
University of Cambridge student societies	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intellectual society ⓘ secret society ⓘ student society ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Cambridge Apostles ⓘ surface form: Cambridge Conversazione Society The Apostles ⓘ
associatedMovement	Bloomsbury Group ⓘ
basedIn	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
fieldOfWork	aesthetics ⓘ economics ⓘ ethics ⓘ history ⓘ literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ politics ⓘ
foundedIn	1820 ⓘ
hasActivity	literary discussion ⓘ philosophical discussion ⓘ political discussion ⓘ presentation of papers ⓘ weekly meetings ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	elite ⓘ intellectual ⓘ male-only (historically) ⓘ secretive ⓘ
hasReputation	controversial due to secrecy ⓘ highly influential in Cambridge intellectual life ⓘ
influenced	20th-century British philosophy ⓘ British politics ⓘ analytic philosophy ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ
languageOfCommunication	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Cambridge, England ⓘ surface form: Cambridge England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
membershipPolicy	invitation-only ⓘ small membership ⓘ
notableMember	Alfred North Whitehead ⓘ Bertrand Russell ⓘ E. M. Forster ⓘ G. E. Moore ⓘ G. H. Hardy ⓘ Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson ⓘ John Maynard Keynes ⓘ Leonard Woolf ⓘ Ludwig Wittgenstein ⓘ Lytton Strachey ⓘ Roger Fry ⓘ Rupert Brooke ⓘ
tradition	circulation of private papers ⓘ use of nicknames for members ⓘ

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bertrand Russell → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Cambridge Apostles → alsoKnownAs → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cambridge Conversazione Society

3rd Earl Russell → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

subject surface form: Bertrand Russell

Bloomsbury Group → associatedWith → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Leslie Stephen → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

G. E. Moore → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

The Apostles → alsoKnownAs → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

The Apostles → affiliation → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

this entity surface form: University of Cambridge student societies

Thoby Stephen → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Saxon Sydney-Turner → partOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Alfred, Lord Tennyson → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Conversazione Society → alsoKnownAs → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Fenton John Anthony Hort → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Frederick Tennyson → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

Frank → memberOf → Cambridge Apostles ⓘ

subject surface form: Frank P. Ramsey