Henry Nugent Bell (1792–1822) was an

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Biography

He was the eldest son of George Bell, Esq., of

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(Inner Temple Admission Register). He followed the profession of a legal antiquary, and, in order to obtain a recognised status, entered himself at the

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, 17 Nov. 1818. In the same year he acquired considerable distinction by his successful advocacy of the claim of Mr. Hastings to the long-dormant

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; the estates, however, with the exception, it is said, of a mill in Yorkshire, had died from the title, and were legally invested in the

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's family. Bell published a detailed account of the proceedings in ''The Huntingdon Peerage'',The Huntingdon Peerage, on Google Books.
/ref> 4to, London, 1820, pp. 413, and the narrative of his various adventures, which are given at length, displays a suspicious luxuriance of imagination not altogether in keeping with what professed to be a grave genealogical treatise. To the unsold copies a new title- page was affixed in 1821, with a genealogical table and additional portraits. Bell was also employed by Mr. J. L. Crawford to further his claim to the titles and estates of

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and Lindsay, and, if we may credit the common report, received no less a sum than 5,036/. for prosecuting the suit. He was cut off" before he could bring the matter to a decisive issue, and dying in- solvent, the unfortunate claimant's money was in a great measure lost. According to Lady Anne Hamilton, Bell, with other minions, was delegated by

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in 1819 to incite the starving people of Manchester against the ministry, and by their means the meeting of 16 Aug. was convoked which led to the

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. The circumstances attending his death as narrated in the journals of the day were somewhat tragic. An action to recover a sum of money advanced to him by an engraver named Cooke was tried on 18 Oct. 1822, and a verdict passed against him ; on the same evening he died. His younger brother was Sir George Bell, K.C.B.

References

* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Henry Nugent 1792 births 1822 deaths 19th-century Irish people People from County Fermanagh Irish genealogists