Author: Bell, George
Biography:
BELL, George (1803-74: ancestry.co.uk)
He was from Penrith, Cumberland, and public records show many men with his name living in the area and whose dates would fit. Helpfully one of them identified himself as a solicitor’s clerk and “Poet” in the 1851 Census, and it seems possible or even probable that this was the author of Descriptive and Other Miscellaneous Pieces. He was the son of George Bell and his wife Elizabeth Todhunter; he was baptised on 2 July 1803 in St. Andrew’s, Penrith. He married Margaret Robinson in Crosthwaite, Cumberland, on 25 May 1830; they had five daughters. The 1841 Census gives his occupation as schoolmaster; all others during his lifetime identify him as a clerk. By 1861 he was a widower and in 1871 he was living in the household of his daughter Hannah. He died probably in early Mar. 1874 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Andrew’s on 6 Mar. There is no evidence that he published any other books of verse. (ancestry.co.uk 10 Mar. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 10 Mar. 2023) SR