Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Henry Glassford Bell (November 8, 1803 - 1874), a Scottish lawyer and man of letters, was born at Glasgow. He received his education at the Glasgow high school and at Edinburgh University. He became intimate with Delta Moir, James Hogg, John Wilson (Christopher North), and others of the brilliant staff of Blackwood's Magazine, to which he was drawn by his political sympathies. In 1828 he became editor of the Edinburgh Literary Journal, which was eventually incorporated in the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle. Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.