Cory Bell

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British politician

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Lieutenant-Colonel William Cory Heward Bell (25 October 1875 – 6 February 1961){{cite web | title = Lt.-Col. W. C. H. Bell | url = http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=lancs&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS285433928&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 | newspaper = The Times | date = 8 February 1961 | page = 17 | location = London |url-access=subscription | access-date = 21 May 2014

Life

Born at Seend in Wiltshire, Bell was the oldest of the four recorded children of William Heward Bell{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1922londuoft#page/13/mode/1up | title = Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1922 | editor = Arthur G. M. Hesilrige | page = 13 | year = 1922 | location = London | access-date = 21 May 2014 | url = http://www.cleeve-house.com/history.html | title = History of Cleeve House | access-date = 21 May 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190421033647/http://cleeve-house.com/history.html | archive-date = 21 April 2019 | url-status = dead | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZpQ4GG-Ng2gC&q=William+Heward+Bell+%281849%E2%80%931927%29&pg=PA23 | title = The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf | page = 23 | editor = Susan Sellers | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780521896948 | access-date = 21 May 2014

Bell was educated at Westminster School before training at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery on 2 November 1895, and was promoted to lieutenant on 2 November 1898. Attached to the 87th battery Royal Field Artillery (RFA), he served in the Second Boer War, during which he was promoted to captain on 16 November 1901. Following the end of the war he returned to the United Kingdom on the SS Avoca in September 1902, and was stationed at Newcastle with the battery as part of the 12th Brigade division RFA. He retired from the army in 1911, but rejoined on the outbreak of World War I. He served in France, where he was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre.

Bell was elected at the 1918 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Devizes division of Wiltshire.{{London Gazette | issue = 31147 | date = 28 January 1919 |page=1364 |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |orig-year=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=496 | issue = 32775 | date = 8 December 1922 |page=8711

After his defeat, Bell did not stand for Parliament again. He became a member of Wiltshire County Council, and served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1932.{{London Gazette | issue = 33809 | date = 18 March 1932 |page=1855 | issue = 39661 | date = 3 October 1952 |page=5214

Personal life

In 1903, Bell married Violet Mary Bowley, the daughter of a Royal Engineers officer. They had two children. In 1932, Bell was living at the Old Rectory, Pewsey, Wiltshire.

Bell died in Wiltshire on 6 February 1961.

References

References

  1. {{London Gazette. (12 November 1895)
  2. Hart′s Army list, 1903
  3. (17 September 1902). "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning home".
  4. "Index entry for the death of Bell, William C.H. aged 85 registration district Trowbridge Q1 1961". ONS.

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