BELL, THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Bell of Poole, Dorset, surgeon_). _b._ Poole 11 Oct. 1792; studied at Guys and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815, F.R.C.S. 1844, F.L.S. 1815, pres. 1853–61; dental surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1817–61 where he lectured on comparative anatomy; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1828, junior secretary 1848–53; professor of Zoology at King’s college London 1836 to death; pres. of the Ray Society 1843–59; purchased in 1866 from the grandnieces of Gilbert White The Wakes, Selborne where he lived to his death; author of _Monograph of Testudinata, parts 1–8, 1832–37, folio_; _History of British quadrupeds_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1874; _History of British reptiles_ 1839; _History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea_ 1853; edited _White’s Natural history of Selborne 2 vols._ 1877. _d._ The Wakes, Selborne 13 March 1880. _Nature xxi_, 473, 499 (1880). BELL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Bell of Ripon, Yorkshire_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 Nov. 1804; served through Peninsular war; colonel R.A. 18 March 1852, colonel commandant 26 Dec. 1865 to death; general 31 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ South lodge, Ripon 28 March 1873. BELLAIRS, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Abel Walford Bellairs of Uffington, Lincolnshire 1755–1839_). _b._ 29 Aug. 1790; midshipman on board H.M.S. Spartiate; wounded twice at Trafalgar; cornet 15 Hussars 25 Nov. 1808; lieut. 26 May 1809 to 1811; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Bedworth, Warws 1830; V. of Hunsingore, Yorkshire 1832 to death; hon. canon of Worcester Sep. 1853 to death. _d._ Paignton near Torquay 17 April 1872. BELLAIRS, SIR WILLIAM (_younger brother of the preceding_). _b._ Uffington 1793; cornet 15 Hussars 2 May 1811; captain 10 April 1817 to 10 Feb. 1820 when he sold out; exon of Yeomen of the Guard 19 Sep. 1837 to Dec. 1848; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s Palace 17 May 1848. (_m._ 1822 Cassandra dau. of Edmund Hooke of Mulbarton lodge, Norfolk, she _d._ 1876). _d._ London 2 Oct. 1863. BELLAMY, GEORGE. _b._ Plymouth 15 Nov. 1773; surgeon’s mate R.N. Feb. 1793; surgeon 19 May 1795; surgeon to the Bellerophon 74 guns 1796–1800; served at battle of the Nile; placed on retired list 1817; M.R.C.P.; mayor of Plymouth 1811–12. _d._ Plymouth 10 Oct. 1863. BELLAMY, REV. JAMES WILLIAM (_son of John Bellamy_). _b._ 25 Nov. 1788; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; Norrisian and Seatonian prizeman 1815; incorporated at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. 1821; head master of Merchant Taylors’ school 6 April 1819 to 23 July 1845; V. of Sellinge, Kent 1822 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral 10 March 1843 to death; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; edited _A concordance to the Holy Bible_ 1818. _d._ Sellinge 2 March 1874.