Bell, ROBERT, a busy litterateur, born in 1800 at Cork, in 1828 came to London, and till 1841 was editor of the Atlas newspaper. He wrote The History of Russia and Lives of the Poets for Lardner's Cyclopædia, the last volumes of Southey's Naval History and Mackintosh's History of England, three five-act comedies, two novels, a Life of Canning, &c.; but he is best known by his annotated edition of the English poets from Chaucer to Cowper (24 vols. 1824-57). He died 12th April 1867.
Bell, ROBERT
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 59
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