Bell, SIR ISAAC LOWTHIAN, was born in 1816, and educated at Edinburgh and Paris. After being engaged in extensive chemical works, he founded, with his brothers, the great Clarence iron-smelting works on the Tees. He wrote many papers on metallurgical and chemical subjects; became F.R.S., D.C.L., and an officer of the Legion of Honour; was M.P. for Hartlepool from 1875 till 1880; and was made a baronet in 1885.
Bell, SIR ISAAC LOWTHIAN
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 58
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