Bell, HENRY GLASSFORD

Bell, HENRY GLASSFORD, lawyer and man of letters, was born in Glasgow, 8th November 1803. He attended Edinburgh University, studied law, passed as an advocate in 1832, and gained the acquaintance of the ruling literary spirits of that time in Edinburgh. He was appointed a sheriff-substitute of Lanarkshire in 1839; in 1867 he succeeded Sir Archibald Alison as sheriff, and acquired the reputation of being the best Scottish mercantile lawyer of his day. He founded (1828) and was for three years editor of the Edinburgh Literary Journal; besides publishing a vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots (1830); Summer and Winter Hours (1831); My Old Portfolio (1832); and Romanees and Minor Poems (1866). He died 7th January 1874. See the Memoir by Stoddart (1892).