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Dramatic list_ (1880) 42. BELFOUR, EDMUND. Secretary of Royal college of surgeons 1814 to death, _d._ 37 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 30 Jany. 1865 in 76 year. BELHAVEN AND STENTON, ROBERT MONTGOMERY HAMILTON, 8 Baron (_eld. child of Wm. Hamilton, 7 Baron Belhaven and Stenton 1765–1814._) _b._ Wishaw house, Lanarkshire 1793; succeeded 29 Oct. 1814; created Baron Hamilton of Wishaw in peerage of U.K. 10 Sep. 1831; lord high comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1831–41, 1847–51, 1853–57 and 1860–66; lieut. col. commandant 1 Lanarkshire militia 21 Nov. 1833 to death; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 10 Aug. 1863 to death. _d._ Wishaw house 22 Dec. 1868. BELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Cupar Fife 1775; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper in London, M.R.C.S.; served in Ireland as surgeon of 1st Regiment of Dundee Volunteers (Loyal Tay Fencibles) during rebellion of 1798 until May 1802 when regiment was disbanded; practised in village of Errol 1802–1807, and at Dundee 1807–50 surgeon to Dundee infirmary 30 years; performed operation of lithotomy many times with great success. _d._ Dundee 28 March 1852. BELL, ALEXANDER. Professor of elocution in London; author of Practical elocutionist 1835; _The tongue, a poem_ 1846; _The Bride, a play_ 1847; _Stammering and other impediments of speech_