BELLEW, JOHN CHIPPENDALL MONTESQUIEU (_only child of Robert Higgin, lieutenant 12 Foot who d. 24 Jany. 1853_). _b._ Lancaster 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Lancaster gr. sch. and St. Mary hall Ox.; assumed his mother’s name of Bellew Aug. 1844; C. of St. Andrew’s Worcester 1849; C. of Prescot Lancs. 1850; assistant chaplain in Bengal 1851; chaplain of St. John’s cathedral Calcutta Dec. 1852 to 1855; edited the _Bengal Hurkaru_; assistant minister of St. Philip’s Regent’s st. London 1855–57; P.C. of St. Mark’s St. John’s Wood 1857–62; minister of Bedford chapel Bloomsbury 26 Oct. 1862 to 1868; one of the most popular preachers in London; received into Church of Rome Oct. 1869; executed deed of relinquishment of holy orders 13 Aug. 1870; very successful as a public reader in England and the United States; author of _Shakespeare’s house at New Place_ 1863; _Blount Tempest a novel 3 vols._ 1866; _Poets Corner, a manual for students_ 1868. _d._ 16 Circus road, St. John’s Wood 19 June 1874. _Bentley’s Quarterly Review i_, 476–92 (1859); _Traits of character by a contemporary i_, 285–312 (1860); _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 50–51, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 15 (1874), _portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 66–69 (1884). BELLEW, SIR MICHAEL DILLON, 1 Baronet (_son of Christopher Dillon Bellew of Mount Bellew, co. Galway 1763–1826_). _b._ 29 Sep. 1796; created a baronet 15 Aug. 1838. _d._ Greenville lodge, Rathmines near Dublin 26 June 1855. BELLEW, RICHARD MONTESQUIEU (_younger son of Sir Edward Bellew 6 baronet who d. 1827_). _b._ 12 Feb. 1803; M.P. for co. Louth 21 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852 and 16 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the treasury 6 Aug. 1847 to 1852; member of Local government board, Ireland. _d._ Dublin 8 Jany. 1880. BELLEW, THOMAS ARTHUR GRATTAN. _b._ 1824; M.P. for co. Galway 26 July 1852 to 21 March 1857; assumed additional surname of Grattan by r.l. 19 March 1859. _d._ Mount Bellew, Duleek, co. Galway 24 July 1863. BELLHOUSE, EDWARD TAYLOR (_eld. son of David Bellhouse of Manchester_). _b._ Manchester 10 Oct. 1816; started firm of E. T. Bellhouse and Co., engineers, Eagle foundry, Hunt st. Manchester 1 July 1842; erected the Gas works for Buenos Ayres, Pernambuco and Athens; erected many large bridges for various railways and many iron buildings; pres. of Manchester Mechanics’ Institute; M.I.M.E. 1857. _d._ Southport 13 Oct. 1881. _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._ (1882) 1–2.