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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_. 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