BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (_eld. son of James Bell, Town clerk of Greenock_). _b._ Glasgow 8 Nov. 1805; ed. at Glasgow high school and Univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate 20 Nov. 1832; sheriff substitute of Lanarkshire 1 July 1838; sheriff principal 8 June 1867 to death; started _Edinburgh Literary Journal_ 1828, edited it to 14 Jany. 1832 when it was merged in _Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle_; he is sketched under name of Tallboys in _Noctes Ambrosianæ_; author of _Life of Mary Queen of Scots 2 vols._ 1828; _Summer and winter hours_ 1831; _Romances and minor poems_ 1866. _d._ Glasgow 7 Jany. 1874. _Journal of jurisprudence xviii_, 92–103 (1874). BELL, JACOB (_son of John Bell of 338 Oxford st. London, chemist who d. 14 Jany. 1849 aged 74_). _b._ 338 Oxford St. 5 March 1810; apprenticed to his father 1827–32; chemist in Oxford st. 1832 to death, his drugs earned a European reputation; founder of Pharmaceutical Society 1841, on which he spent a large sum; edited _Pharmaceutical Journal_ July 1841 to death; M.P. for St. Albans 24 Dec. 1850 to 1 July 1852; contested Great Malvern 1852 and Marylebone 1854; collected at his house 15 Langham place, London a gallery of pictures many by Sir Edwin Landseer, the 13 best of which he bequeathed to the nation; F.L.S. 6 March 1832; author of _Chemical and pharmaceutical processes and products_ 1852. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 12 June 1859. _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Historical sketch of progress of pharmacy_ (1880) 280–92; _I.L.N. xviii_, 299 (1851), _portrait, xxxi_, 4, 24 (1859), _portrait_. BELL, JAMES SPENCER. _b._ 1818; M.P. for Guildford 7 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. _d._ 1 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 Feb. 1872. BELL, JOHN (_only son of John Bell of Thirsk_). _b._ 1809; M.P. for Thirsk 1 July 1841 to death; declared insane by a commission July 1849. _d._ Thirsk 5 March 1851. BELL, REV. JOHN. _b._ Snaith, Yorkshire; ed. at Douay, France; ordained priest at Crook hall, co. Durham 23 Dec. 1794; prefect general of Douay college Durham and professor of rhetoric and poetry 1794–1817, the college was moved from Crook hall to Ushaw 1808; appointed to mission of Samlesbury near Preston 1817 and to Kippax park Yorkshire 1828; author of _The wanderings of the human intellect, or a new dictionary of sects_ 1814, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._ Selby 31 May 1854 aged 87. BELL, JOHN. Lived in Abyssinia 1842 to death; general in army of Ras Ali the ruler of Abyssinia 1848 who gave him the province of Diddim; taken prisoner by Kasai 1853 who deposed Ali and took title of Theodorus; minister and general in chief to Theodorus 1853 to death; killed in a battle fought against Garred at Waldabba near the western bank of the Taccazy river 31 Oct. 1860 after he had himself killed Garred.