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BELL, JOHN WILLIAM BROWNE, son of John Browne Bell, journalist, and Anne Millard; b. 1 May 1807; adm. 11 Jan 1819 (Packharness'); adm. solicitor; founder and proprietor, News of the World 1843; m. 1st, c. 1838, Jessie Temple, dau. of Col. --- Lowe; m. 2nd, 29 Jul 1852 (IGI) Louisa Helen, dau. of J. Chorley, Bridgwater, Somerset; d. 20 Nov 1877.

BELL, JOHN, son of Rev. John Bell, Sedlescombe, Sussex; bapt. 5 Jan 1614/5; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, 224); afterwards at a school in Aldermanbury, City of London; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Mar 1631, matr. 1631.

BELL, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments).

Bell, William Cory Heward, son of William Heward Bell, of Seend, Wilts, by Hannah, eldest daughter of W. Cory, of London; b. Oct. 21, 1875; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 1889; left Jan. 1893; R.M.A. Woolwich Aug. 1893; 2nd Lieut. R. A. Nov. 2, 1895; Lieut. Nov. 2, 1898; Capt. Nov. 19, 1901; served in the South African War 1902; retired on half-pay Aug. 23, 1911; rejoined on mobilization Aug. 3, 1914, and in Nov. following went out to the western front, where he served with the Artillery of the 1st Div. until Jan. 1919; Major Nov. 16, 1915; Lieut.-Col. Dec. 22, 1917, placed in Reserve of Officers Dec. 29, 1918; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1916, and Jan. 4, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 1917; Croix de Guerre 1918; M. P. Wilts (Devizes) Dec. 1918 - Nov. 1923; High Sheriff of Wilts 1932; D. L. Wilts 1952; m. 1903, Violet Mary, daughter of Capt. James Devereux Bowley, R.E.; d. Feb. 25, 1961.

BELL, WILLIAM GEORGE, son of George William Bell, St. Edmund’s Terrace, Regent’s Park, London; b. 19 May 1861; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 Mar 1875; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1879, adm. pens. 24 May 1879, matr. Mich. 1879; adm. solicitor Apr. 1885; practised in Great Marlborough Street; d. 31 Jul 1891.

Bell, William; b. July 25, 1890; adm. May 4, 1905 (R); left Easter 1909; was serving in a United States O. T. C. 1917.

BELLAIRS, RALPH HAMON, second son of Rev. Henry Spencer Kenrick Bellairs, Baton End, Oxfordshire, and Mary Jane, dau. of Benjamin Helps Starey, Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire; b. 5 Sep 1867; adm. as exhibitioner (J) 16 Jun 1881; QS Jan 1883; left (with Triplett) 1886; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1886, Abbott Scholar 1887; BA 1890; MA 1897; MusB1897; MusD 1904; organist and musical director, Bradfield Coll., 1893-6; FRCO 1898; ARCM (Theory) 1899; organist and choirmaster, Christ Church, Cheltenham, from 1901; author, The Elements of Pianoforte Technique arranged upon a Rhythmic Basis, 1905; composer, Suite Idyllique, and other works; m. 3 Aug 1893 Mary Estrella Eleanor, dau. of Rev. Thomas Godfrey Pembroke Pope DD, Consular Chaplain at Lisbon and Canon of Gibraltar.

Bellamy, Gerald Eade, son of Edward Bellamy, F.R.C.S., of London; b. April 16, 1880; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1896; Charing Cross Hospital; Livingstone Sc. Scholar; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1903; formerly in practice at Kew, later at Eythorne, near Dover; m. April 26, 1905, Hilda Mary, youngest daughter of Arthur Ogle Streatfield, of Streatham, Surrey.

Bellenger, Rodney Charles, son of Rt. Hon. Frederick John Bellenger PC MP, Sec. of State for War, and Marion Theresa, d. of Generalkonsul Karl Stollwerk of Köln, Germany; b. 18 Apr. 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (H); left Dec. 1939; a valuer and co. dir., FSVA 1968; m. 1st, 30 Dec. 1948 Helga Wertheimer; 2nd, 4 June 1983 Jean Ann, widow of Ronald Bowden; d. 29 Nov. 2015.

BELLI, CHARLES ALMERIC, fourth son of John Belli, Bath, Somerset, EICS Bengal, Secretary to Warren Hastings (qv), and Elizabeth Stuart, widow of Bryan Glover [check if EICS], Calcutta, India, and only dau. of John Cockerell, Bishops Hull, Somerset; b. 8 Dec 1792; adm. Christmas 1806; KS 1806; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1810, matr. 8 Jun 1810, Westminster Student; BA 1814; MA 1816; ordained deacon (Salisbury) 1816, priest (London) 1817; Vicar of Prittlewell, Essex, 1816-22; Precentor, St. Paul’s Cathedral, from 16 Mar 1819; Vicar of Witham, Essex, 1820-1; Rector of Aldham, Essex, 1821-3; Rector of Paglesham, Essex, 1822-60; Rector of South Weald, Essex, 1823-77; a munificent benefactor to the church in South Weald and in the Brentford district; m. 14 Nov 1827 Frances, second dau. of W. Willan, How Hatch, Essex; d. 5 Jan 1886.