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Edwin Weston Bell


Edwin Weston Bell
File:Bell, Edwin Weston.jpg
Born 1859
Died 1894
Residence Belmont, Dundee
Occupation antiquarian
Society Membership
membership ordinary fellow
left 1894 deceased
elected_AI 1893.11.24
societies Dundee Amateur Gymnastic Society



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1893.10.31 proposed for election at the next meeting
1894.04.10 death announced
death noted in report of the council for 1894

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Edwin Weston Bell, an antiquarian and a breeder of Scottish Deerhounds from Dundee, Scotland.

Vice President of Dundee Amateur Gymnastic Society

Belmont is listed in the Dundee Directory as No. 15 Perth Road. The inhabitants in 1890-91 were the family of John W., James Harriot, E. Weston and George Jarvis Bell.
E. W. Bell and Co., are listed as merchants at No. 7 Ward Road, an address they shared with the Dundee Burns Club, the Dundee Hebrew Congregation, the artists James G. H. Spindler and Mrs Mary Marshall.

Belmont House is listed in the 1895 Dundee Directory as No. 15 Perth Road, and is shown on the Ordnance Survey maps of the period as a large mansion in its own grounds, with a croquet green to the east, and the Belmont Canvass Works to the north.
The inhabitants of the house are given as John W. Bell, merchant, James Harriott Bell, merchant, and George Jarvis Bell. The family business was based at No. 7 Ward Road. Belmont Works belonged to Thomas Bell, a different branch of the family.

Edwin Weston BELL Born 1859 Dundee, ANS, SCT Gender Male Census 1881 Resident at 15 Perth Road, St. Peter, Angus. [1]

Publications

External Publications

The Scottish Deerhound With Notes On Its Origin and Characteristics 1892

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