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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_.
BELL, ROBERT (_youngest son of John Bell of Cork_). _b._ Cork 16
Jany. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin where he originated the
Dublin Historical Society; settled in London 1828; edited the
_Atlas_ weekly paper many years, the _Monthly Chronicle_ and the
_Home News_ a monthly journal; author of _History of Russia 3
vols._ 1838; _Lives of the English poets 2 vols._ 1839; _Wayside
pictures through France, Belgium and Holland_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858;
_Hearts and altars 3 vols._ 1852; _The ladder of gold 3 vols._
1856; _The annotated edition of the English poets 24 vols._
1854–57, and of 3 five-act comedies, _Marriage_ 1842; _Mothers and
daughters_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1845 and _Temper_ 1847. _d._ 14 York st.,
Portman sq. London 12 April 1867.
BELL, VENERABLE ROBERT. Ordained 1831; Inc. of Tipperary 1866 to
death; archdeacon of Cashel 1872 to death; canon of St. Patrick’s
cathedral, Dublin. _d._ rectory Tipperary 10 Jany. 1883 in 75
year.
BELL, ROBERT CHARLES. _b._ Edinburgh 1806; Engraved a series of
Scottish views and a number of vignette portraits, also many
plates for the Royal Scottish Association; his largest and most
important work was an engraving of Sir William Allan’s Battle of
Preston Pans which he completed in 1872; several of his best
plates appeared in the _Art Journal_ 1850–72. _d._ Edinburgh 5
Sep. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1872) 284.
BELL, SIR SYDNEY SMITH (_9 son of Wm. Bell, of London, banker_).
_b._ 1805; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; barrister I.T. 3
May 1839; puisne judge at Cape of Good Hope 7 Feb. 1851, and first
puisne judge May 1858; chief justice of supreme court and pres. of
legislative council of Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1868 to 1879;
knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1869; author of _Cases decided in the
House of Lords on appeal from the courts of Scotland 7 vols._
1843–52; _Colonial administration of Great Britain_ 1859. _d._ 42
Kensington park road, London 13 Sep. 1879.
BELL, THOMAS (_son of Richard Bell of Newcastle_). _b._ Newcastle 16
Dec. 1785; land valuer and surveyor; an antiquary, assisted the
local topographical authors in their works especially Rev. John
Hodgson in his _History of Northumberland 6 vols._ 1827–40; one of
the founders of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society and
of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle 1813. _d._ Newcastle 30
April 1860.
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.
BELLAMY, JOHN CREMER. _b._ Plymouth 7 Dec. 1812; L.S.A. 1833,
M.R.C.S. 1834; Curator of Plymouth Institute and Devon and
Cornwall Nat. Hist. Society; author of _The natural history of
South Devon_ 1839; _The housekeeper’s guide to the fish market for
each month of the year_ 1843, _new ed._ 1862; _A thousand facts in
the histories of Devon and Cornwall_ 1850. _d._ George st.
Plymouth 12 May 1854.
BELLAMY, WILLIAM HOARE. _b._ Cork 5 Aug. 1800; made his début at
Elmsworth 1825 as Sir Simon Rochdale in _John Bull_; went to the
United States; made his début in New York 1838. (_m._ Mrs. A. W.
Penson, she was _b._ Scotland and acted in the United States 1838
to her death May 1857). _d._ Greenpoint, Long Island 15 April
1866.
BELLARS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Chester; a schoolmaster; sec. and curator
of Chester Natural History Society; photographic artist in London
1862 to death; the best facsimilist in England; author of
_Illustrated catalogue of British land and freshwater shells_
1858; _The historical numismatic atlas of the Roman emperors_.
_d._ 12 Bedford court, Covent Garden 22 June 1868 aged 44.
BELLASIS, EDWARD (_only son of Rev. George Bellasis, V. of Basildon,
Berkshire who d. 1814_). _b._ Basildon vicarage 14 Oct. 1800; ed.
at Christ’s Hospital 1808–15; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; employed
in parliamentary practice 1836–66, counsel in 342 important cases;
serjeant at law 10 July 1844; received into Roman Catholic Church
28 Sep. 1850; trustee with J. R. Hope-Scott Q.C. of Earl of
Shrewsbury 1853–56; steward of manors of Duke of Norfolk in
Norfolk and Suffolk 1863; one of the 3 comrs. who reported on
College of Arms 1870; author of several anonymous pamphlets. _d._
Hyères, France 24 Jany. 1873. _The Tablet 1 Feb. 1873 p._ 138.
BELLEW, PATRICK, 1 Baron (_elder son of Sir Edward Bellew, 6 baronet
who d. 15 March 1827_). _b._ London 29 Jany 1798; succeeded 15
March 1827; lord lieut. of co. Louth 1832 to death; col. of Louth
militia 17 Nov. 1843 to death; M.P. for Louth 1831–1832 and
1834–1837; P.C. Ireland 1838; created a peer of Ireland by title
of Baron Bellew of Barmeath co. Louth 17 July 1848. _d._ Barmeath
10 Dec. 1866.
BELLEW, REV. SIR CHRISTOPHER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1818; succeeded 26
June 1855. _d._ at house of the Jesuit Fathers, Gardiner st.
Dublin 18 March 1867.
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.
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