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George Bell
George Bell may refer to: Law and politics * George Joseph Bell (1770–1843), Scottish jurist and legal author * George Alexander Bell (1856–1927), Canadian pioneer and Saskatchewan politician * George Bell (Canadian politician) (1869–1940), politician in British Columbia * George John Bell (1872–1944), Australian politician * George Bell (trade unionist) (1878–1959), British trade union leader * George E. Bell (1883–1970), Canadian politician * George T. Bell (1913–1973), special assistant to United States President Richard Nixon * George W. Bell, doctor and state legislator in Arkansas Military * George Bell (British Army officer) (1794–1877), Irish general * George Bell (brigadier general) (1828–1907), American Civil War brigadier general * George H. Bell (1839–1917), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * George Bell Jr. (1859–1926), United States Army major general * George Gray Bell (1920–2000), Canadian soldier, civil servant, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Joseph Bell
George Joseph Bell (26 March 177023 September 1843) was a Scottish advocate and legal scholar. From 1822 to 1843 he was Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh. He was succeeded by John Shank More. Early life George Bell was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, a son of the Reverend William Bell (d. 1779), a clergyman of the Episcopal Church of Scotland. He was the younger brother of the surgeon John Bell, and an elder brother of the surgeon Sir Charles Bell. At the age of eight he entered the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He received no university education further than attending the lectures of both A. F. Tytler and Dugald Stewart. Between 1787 and 1788 he attended lectures on Scots law by Hume, Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh, and nephew of the philosopher Hume. Advocate and scholar Bell became a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1791, and was one of the close friends of Francis Jeffrey. In 1804 he published a ''Treatise on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bell (basketball)
George Bell (born 1957) is the tallest man in the United States at as recognized by Guinness World Records. He lost the title when Igor Vovkovinskiy was declared the tallest living man in the United States in 2010 at (Vovkovinskiy died in 2021). He was a deputy sheriff in Norfolk, Virginia, he played college basketball at Morris Brown College, Biola University with the Harlem Wizards and Harlem Globetrotters show teams. Bell was featured on the AMC show Freakshow, throughout its two seasons. In an interview for the show, he revealed that he had appeared as an alien who landed on top of the L.A. Coliseum at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He also appeared on season 4 of American Horror Story ''American Horror Story'' is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX. The first installment in the '' American Story'' media franchise, each season is conceived as a .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bell & Sons
George Bell & Sons was a book publishing house located in London, United Kingdom, from 1839 to 1986. History George Bell & Sons was founded by George Bell as an educational bookseller, with the intention of selling the output of London university presses; but became best known as an independent publisher of classics and children's books. One of Bell's first investments in publishing was a series of ''Railway Companions''; that is, booklets of timetables and tourist guides. Within a year Bell's publishing business had outstripped his retail business, and he elected to move from his original offices into Fleet Street. There G. Bell & Sons branched into the publication of books on art, architecture, and archaeology, in addition to the classics for which the company was already known. Bell's reputation was only improved by his association with Henry Cole. In the mid-1850s, Bell expanded again, printing the children's books of Margaret Gatty (''Parables from Nature'') and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Roussos
George Roussos (; August 20, 1915 – February 19, 2000), also known under the pseudonym George Bell, was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers, including on landmark early issues of Marvel Comics' ''Fantastic Four''. Over five decades, he created artwork for numerous publishers, including EC Comics, and he was a staff colorist for Marvel Comics. Biography Early life and career George Roussos was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Greek-Americans William and Helen Roussos. After he and his sisters Helen and Alice were orphaned as children, George was sent to live at the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum in New York City, and attended Public School 125 in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. Roussos was influenced by the art of cartoonist Frank Miller in the aviation comic strip ''Barney Baxter, Barney Baxter in the Air''. Other influences included Chester Gould, Stan Kaye, Robert Fawcett and Hal Foster. "I had no schooling [in art] except the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bell (activist)
George Bell (1761-1843) was an advocate and activist for the education rights of African Americans. In 1807, he co-founded the Bell School, the first school for African Americans in Washington, D.C. Life Bell was born into slavery in Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are .... His wife, Sophia Browning, purchased his freedom while she was also enslaved. Bell worked as a carpenter in Washington, D.C. and used his wages to purchase his wife's freedom. Education advocacy Bell could not read or write. He believed that education should be accessible for African Americans and became an activist in this area. Bell co-founded and built a one-story school house with Nicholas Franklin and Moses Liverpool, two free African American men who were also formerly enslaved. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Irving Bell
George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley. George Larson II, 2010-07-04 He died in 2000 from complications of after surgery."George Irving Bell, 73, Leader In Studies of Genome" (obituary), ''New York Times'', June 18, 2000, Section 1, p. 32. Education Bell received a in physics from |
Max Bell
George Maxwell Bell (October 13, 1912 – July 19, 1972) was a Canadian newspaper publisher, race horse owner and philanthropist. He was best known as the co-founder of FP Publications, Canada's largest newspaper syndicate in the 1960s. He built his newspaper empire after inheriting the '' Calgary Albertan'', and its $500,000 debt, from his father in 1936. He repaid the debt by 1945 and proceeded to purchase papers across the country, including the ''Ottawa Journal'' and ''The Globe and Mail''. Much of Bell's fortune was built on Alberta's burgeoning oil and gas industry. He formed several companies in the late 1940s which came to be worth millions of dollars when sold. Bell was a long time owner of thoroughbred race horses. He partnered with Frank McMahon to form two stables that won races across Canada, the United States and Europe. The pair joined with singer Bing Crosby to win the Irish Derby in 1965 while he and McMahon won the 1968 Queen's Plate. Bell was a part owner of se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bell (bishop)
George Kennedy Allen Bell (4 February 1883 – 3 October 1958) was an Anglican theologian, Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester, member of the House of Lords and a pioneer of the ecumenical movement. Early career Bell was born in Hayling Island, Hampshire, as the eldest child of Sarah Georgina Megaw and her husband James Allen Bell (the vicar of the Island and later a canon at Norwich Cathedral). His sister Margorie married Cecil Wood, Bishop of Melanesia (1912-19). He was elected as a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School in 1896. From there he was elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a First in Classical Moderations in 1903 and a Second in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1905. He won the Newdigate Prize for English verse in 1904 for his poem, 'Delphi'. After Oxford he attended Wells Theological College (first being influenced by ecumenism at the latter) and was ordained deacon at Ripon Cathedral in 1907. He went on to work as a curate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bell (painter)
George Frederick Henry Bell (1 December 1878 – 22 October 1966) was an Australian painter and teacher, critic, portraitist, violinist and war artist who contributed significantly to the advancement of the local Modern movement from the 1920s to the 1930s. Early life and education He was born in Kew, Victoria, the son and fourth child of Clara (née Bowler) and George Bell, public servant, and educated at Kew High School. He studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1896 to 1903 under Frederick McCubbin and painting master Bernard Hall as well as taking private instruction from George Coates 1895-6. Europe Bell's father financed his studies so he could afford to travel, and on 19 April 1904 he sailed for England, then Paris where studied with Jean Paul Laurens at Julian's atelier, then at the academies of the Spaniard Castelucha and Colarossi. In 1906 he travelled to Italy to study the Old Masters, particularly Titian and Tintoretto, before visitin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bell (publisher)
George Bell (1814–1890) was an English publisher who founded the book publishing house George Bell & Sons. He was the father of publisher and animal welfare campaigner, Ernest Bell. He is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. Location of the Bell houses *1839: 1 Bouverie Street *1840: 186 Fleet Street *1854: Acquired Deighton's offices at Green Street and Trinity Street, Cambridge *1864: Acquired 4 York Street, Covent Garden. This location had quite a pedigree: The previous occupant of these houses was the publishing company of Henry George Bohn; before that they had belonged to the bookseller J.H. Bohte, who specialized in classics; and before that (though not immediately before) they had been the home of Thomas de Quincey. *1867: Moved out of Fleet Street *1903: York House, 6 Portugal Street, WC2 designed for George Bell & Sons by Horace Field *1977: Denmark House, Queen Elizabeth Street References External linksArchive of George Bell & Sons Ltdin the coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bell (editor)
George Bell (9 January 1809 – 4 February 1899) was a New Zealand newspaper proprietor and editor. He was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England on 9 January 1809. Edward McGlashan Edward McGlashan (12 December 1817 – 31 July 1889) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. McGlashan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1817. His father's family were publishers to the University of Edinburgh. ... was his son-in-law. References 1809 births 1899 deaths English emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand writers {{NewZealand-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Bell
Benjamin Bell of Hunthill FRSE FRCSEd (6 September 1749 – 5 April 1806) is considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon. He is commonly described as the father of the Edinburgh school of surgery,Richardson BWS, Martin MSM. Disciples of Æsculapius ... With a life of the author by his daughter Mrs. George Martin ... With portraits, etc: 2 vol. Hutchinson & Co.: London; 1900.Miles AThe Edinburgh school of surgery before Lister London: A. & C. Black, ltd.; 1918. or the first of the Edinburgh scientific surgeons.Comrie JD, Wellcome Historical Medical MuseumHistory of Scottish medicine to 1860 London: Bailliáere, Tindall & Cox for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum; 1927Guthrie DA history of medicine New and rev. ed. London; New York: Nelson; 1958.Dingwall H. MA history of Scottish medicine: themes and influences Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002 . He published medical works of significance, notably his surgical textbook ''A System of Surgery'' which becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
