Grave of George Bell in Highgate Cemetery

George Bell (1814–1890) was an English publisher who founded the book publishing house

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 univ ...

. He was the father of publisher and animal welfare campaigner, Ernest Bell. He is buried on the western side of

Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...

Location of the Bell houses

*1839: 1 Bouverie Street *1840: 186

Fleet Street Fleet Street is a major street mostly in the City of London. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary with the City of Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was na ...

*1854: Acquired Deighton's offices at Green Street and

Trinity Street, Cambridge Trinity Street (formerly the High Street) is a street in central Cambridge, England. The street continues north as St John's Street, and south as King's Parade and then Trumpington Street. The street is named after Trinity College, which is ...

*1864: Acquired 4 York Street,

Covent Garden Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist si ...

. This location had quite a pedigree: The previous occupant of these houses was the publishing company of

Henry George Bohn Henry George Bohn (4 January 179622 August 1884) was a British publisher. He is principally remembered for the ''Bohn's Libraries'' which he inaugurated. These were begun in 1846, targeted the mass market, and comprised editions of standard works ...

; 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 Thomas Penson De Quincey (; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his '' Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'' (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quinc ...

. *1867: Moved out of Fleet Street *1903: York House, 6 Portugal Street, WC2 designed for George Bell & Sons by

Horace Field Horace Field was a London-born architect. His work was often in a Wrenaissance style, as well as other post-gothic English historical revival styles, with influences from the Arts and Crafts movement and Richard Norman Shaw. His commissions incl ...

*1977: Denmark House, Queen Elizabeth Street

References

External links

Archive of George Bell & Sons Ltd
in the collection of the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

* * 1814 births 1890 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery Publishers (people) from London People from Richmond, North Yorkshire 19th-century English businesspeople {{UK-business-bio-stub