HENRY GLASSFORD

See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• HENRY GLASSFORD BELL (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

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