BELL, JOHN. _b._ Newcastle 1782; Bookseller at Newcastle; land surveyor at Gateshead; one of founders of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle on Tyne, treasurer 6 Feb. 1813; author of _Rhymes of northern bards_ 1812; contributed to _Gent. Mag._ _d._ Bentinck crescent, Newcastle 30 Oct. 1864. BELL, JOHN. _b._ Ireland 1796; went to the United States 1810; author of _On baths and mineral waters_ 1831; _Practical dictionary of materia medica_ 1841; _On regimen and longevity_ 1842; _Dietetical and medical hydrology_ 1850. _d._ Philadelphia 1872. BELL, SIR JOHN (_son of David Bell of Bonytoun, Fifeshire_). _b._ Bonytoun 1 Jany. 1782; ensign 52 Foot 15 Aug. 1805; served in Peninsular war; permanent assistant quartermaster general to 10 Nov. 1814; chief sec. of government at Cape of Good Hope 1828–41; aide de camp to the sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. governor of Guernsey 24 Jany. 1848 to 30 June 1854; col. of 95 Foot 25 June 1850 and of 4 Foot 26 Dec. 1853 to death; general 15 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ 55 Cadogan place, London 20 Nov. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_, 541 (1876), _portrait_. BELL, JOHN DAVID (_youngest son of George Joseph Bell, professor of law at Univ. of Aberdeen_). _b._ 1823 or 1824; barrister M.T. 12 May 1848; practised at Calcutta 1850–58; founder and chairman of Positive Life Assurance Company 1870; standing counsel to government of India at Calcutta 1878 to death. _d._ Calcutta 15 Aug. 1880 in 57 year. BELL, JOHN GRAY (_son of Thomas Bell of Newcastle 1785–1860_). _b._ Newcastle 21 Sep. 1823; a bookseller in London 1848–54 and in Manchester 1854 to death; published a valuable series of _Tracts on the topography history and dialects of the counties of Great Britain_ 1850; author of _A descriptive and critical catalogue of works illustrated by Thomas and John Bell_ 1851; privately printed _A genealogical account of the descendants of John of Gaunt_ 1855. _d._ Manchester 21 Feb. 1866. BELL, JOHN MONTGOMERIE. _b._ Paisley 1804; advocate in Edinburgh 1825; advocate depute 1847; sheriff of Kincardine 7 May 1851 to death; author of _Treatise on law of arbitration in Scotland_ 1861; _The martyr of liberty, a poem_ 1863. _d._ Linnhouse 16 Oct. 1862. BELL, JONATHAN ANDERSON (_2 son of James Bell, advocate_). _b._ Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; spent some years with Messrs. Rickman and Hutcheson of Birmingham, architects; an architect in Edinburgh 1838 to death; sec. to Royal Association for the promotion of the fine arts in Scotland May 1839 to death; author of _Poems_. _Privately printed_ 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1865. _Poems by J. A. Bell_ (1865) _v-xi_.