Author: Bell, Henry Glassford
Biography:
BELL, Henry Glassford (1803-74: ODNB)
Sheriff and writer. He was born on 8 Nov. 1803 at Glasgow, the son of James Bell and Janet (Hamilton) Bell. He attended the Glasgow grammar school and the University of Edinburgh; while he was an undergraduate he began writing the poems published privately in 1824. He initiated the Edinburgh Literary Journal in 1828 and attracted a range of notable writers as contributors. While editing the journal, he was also studying law and he became an advocate in 1831, the same year he married Sophia Stewart on 14 Feb. The couple were to have six children. He was appointed to the Glasgow sheriff court and became a notable public figure and judge at Glasgow. Sophia died in Nov. 1847, and he married Marian Sandeman in 1872 before dying of infection just two years later on 7 Jan. 1874. He is buried in St Mungo’s Cathedral, Glasgow—the first person to be accorded that honour in the nineteenth century. (ODNB: 28 Feb. 2018; ancestry.co.uk 16 Feb. 2025) SR
Other Names:
- Henry G. Bell