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HENRY GLASSFORD BELL (1803-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY GLASSFORD See also:BELL (1803-1874)  , a Scottish lawyer and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow on the 8th of See also:November 1803 . He received his See also:education at the Glasgow high school and at See also:Edinburgh University . He became intimate with " See also:Delta" See also:Moir, See also:James See also:Hogg, See also:John See also:Wilson (See also:Christopher See also:North), and others of the brilliant See also:staff of See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine, to which he was See also:drawn by his See also:political sympathies . In 1828 he became editor of the Edinburgh See also:Literary See also:Journal, which was eventually incorporated in the Edinburgh Weekly See also:Chronicle . He was admitted to the See also:bar in 1832 . In 1839 he was appointed See also:sheriff-substitute of See also:Lanarkshire, and in 1867 he succeeded See also:Sir See also:Archibald See also:Alison in the See also:post of sheriff-See also:principal of the See also:county, an See also:office which he filled with distinguished success . In 1831 he published Summer and See also:Winter See also:Hours, a See also:volume of poems, of which the best known is that on See also:Mary, See also:queen of Scots . He further defended the cause of the unfortunate queen in a See also:prose See also:Life (2 vols., 1828-1831) . Among his other See also:works may be mentioned a See also:preface which he wrote to See also:Bell and Bains's edition (1865) of the works of See also:Shakespeare, and Romances and See also:Minor Poems (1866) . He figures in the society of the Noctes Ambrosianae as " Tallboys." He died on the 7th of See also:January 1874 .

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