ROBERT

See also:

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

BELL (1800-1867)  , Irish man of letters, was born at Cork on the 16th of January 1800 . He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was one of the founders of the Dublin Historical Society . In . 1828 he `settled in London, where he edited a weekly paper, the Atlas, and until 1841 was engaged in journalism, and afterwards in miscellaneous literary work . He died on the 12th of April 1867 . His most important work is his annotated edition of the English Poets (24 vols., 1854-i857; new ed., 29 vols., 1866), the works of each poet being prefaced by a memoir . For Lard ner's,Cabinet Cyclopaedia he wrote: History of Russia (3 vols., 1836-1838); Lives of English Poets (2 vols., 1839); a continuation, with W . Wallace, of Sir James Mackintosh's History of England (vols. iv.-x., 1830-1840); and the fifth volume (1840) of the Lives of the British Admirals, begun by R . Southey . He was a director of the Royal Literary Fund, and well known for his open-hearted generosity to fellow men of letters .