George Joseph Bell

(1770-1843)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bell, George Joseph, 1770-1843 NRA: Bell George Joseph (1770-1843) Lawyer Legal Author DNB: Bell, George Joseph (1770-1843), jurist and legal writer LBT ID: GeBell1843 VIAF ID: 50661736 LOC ID: n85158237	B/BAP: 1770-03-26 DIED: 1843-09-23
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Scottish jurist and professor of Scots law at Edinburgh University (1822); he was the brother of the surgeon Charles Bell and a friend of Francis Jeffrey and Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO George Joseph Bell: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter V 1829 Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 29 September 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1843