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Sir Thomas Hugh Bell Bart

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Sir Thomas Hugh Bell Bart

Birth
Walker, Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
Death
29 Jun 1931 (aged 87)
Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England
Burial
East Rounton, Hambleton District, North Yorkshire, England Add to Map
Plot
plaque in church; grave in churchyard
Memorial ID
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2nd Baronet Bell of Rounton Grange
English industrialist, landowner, Justice of the Peace, and administrator.
A Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham, he was High Sheriff of Durham in 1895 and Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1906 to 1931.
He joined his family firm, Bell Brothers, and became director of its steelworks at Middlesbrough.
He was the son of the wealthy pioneering ironmaster Lowthian Bell and his wife, Margaret Pattinson. He married Maria Shield on 23 April 1867 and they had two children:
Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), the author, traveller, and political officer
Sir Maurice Bell, 3rd Baronet (1871–1944)
After the death of his first wife (on 19 April 1871), in 1876 he married, secondly, Florence Olliffe (later Dame Florence Bell, DBE), a daughter of Sir Joseph Olliffe.
With Florence he had three children:
Hugh Lowthian Bell (1878–1926)
Florence Elsa Bell (1880–1971), who married Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond
Mary Katherine Bell, OBE (1881-1966), who married Charles Trevelyan
2nd Baronet Bell of Rounton Grange
English industrialist, landowner, Justice of the Peace, and administrator.
A Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham, he was High Sheriff of Durham in 1895 and Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1906 to 1931.
He joined his family firm, Bell Brothers, and became director of its steelworks at Middlesbrough.
He was the son of the wealthy pioneering ironmaster Lowthian Bell and his wife, Margaret Pattinson. He married Maria Shield on 23 April 1867 and they had two children:
Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), the author, traveller, and political officer
Sir Maurice Bell, 3rd Baronet (1871–1944)
After the death of his first wife (on 19 April 1871), in 1876 he married, secondly, Florence Olliffe (later Dame Florence Bell, DBE), a daughter of Sir Joseph Olliffe.
With Florence he had three children:
Hugh Lowthian Bell (1878–1926)
Florence Elsa Bell (1880–1971), who married Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond
Mary Katherine Bell, OBE (1881-1966), who married Charles Trevelyan


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