BELL, SIR JOSHUA PETER. _b._ co. Kildare 1826; owner with his father and brothers of a splendid station called Jimbour near Dalby, Queensland where they became great wool growers; M.P. for Dalby in Queensland parliament 1863 to March 1879; colonial treasurer 1871–74; pres. of legislative council March 1879 to death; K.C.M.G. 24 Nov. 1881. _d._ Brisbane 20 Dec. 1881. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news xvi_, 405 (1882), _portrait_. BELL, LADY MARION (_2 dau. of Charles Shaw of Ayr_). _b._ Edinburgh 1787. (_m._ 3 June 1811 Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S., celebrated physiologist _b._ Nov. 1774 _d._ 28 April 1842). Granted a civil list pension of £100 for her husband’s services to science 14 Sep. 1843; published _The letters of Sir Charles Bell_ 1870. _d._ 47 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 9 Nov. 1876. BELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 18 April 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Northumberland 1816; M.P. for Northumberland 1826–31 and for South Northumberland 1832–52; lieut. col. of Northumberland and Newcastle yeomanry cavalry 1826–63. _d._ Woolsington near Newcastle 28 Oct. 1871. BELL, OSWALD HOME. M.R.C.S. Edin. 3 Feb. 1863; professor of medicine in Univ. of St. Andrews 1863 to death; dean of the medical faculty. _d._ The Scores, St. Andrews 24 June 1875 in 39 year. BELL, REV. PATRICK (_son of George Bell of Mid Leoch farm, parish of Auchterhouse near Dundee_). _b._ Mid Leoch farm April 1799; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, LLD. 1867; ordained 1843; minister of Carmyllie, Arbroath Dec. 1843 to death; invented a reaping machine 1826 being 7 or 8 years before the earliest American inventors; presented by Highland Society with sum of £1000 1868. _d._ The manse of Carmyllie 22 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 473 (1869); _I.L.N. lii_, 225 (1868), _portrait_. BELL, ROBERT (_son of Benjamin Bell, surgeon_). _b._ 1782; ed. at high school Edinburgh; advocate 1809; sheriff of Berwickshire 1842–60; procurator to Church of Scotland 1842 to death; member of Bannatyne club; made a fine collection of Rembrandt etchings. _d._ 15 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 27 April 1861. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_.