Dramatic list_ (1880) 42.
BELFOUR, EDMUND. Secretary of Royal college of surgeons 1814 to
death, _d._ 37 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 30 Jany. 1865 in 76 year.
BELHAVEN AND STENTON, ROBERT MONTGOMERY HAMILTON, 8 Baron (_eld.
child of Wm. Hamilton, 7 Baron Belhaven and Stenton 1765–1814._)
_b._ Wishaw house, Lanarkshire 1793; succeeded 29 Oct. 1814;
created Baron Hamilton of Wishaw in peerage of U.K. 10 Sep. 1831;
lord high comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1831–41,
1847–51, 1853–57 and 1860–66; lieut. col. commandant 1 Lanarkshire
militia 21 Nov. 1833 to death; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 10 Aug.
1863 to death. _d._ Wishaw house 22 Dec. 1868.
BELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Cupar Fife 1775; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; pupil
of Sir Astley Cooper in London, M.R.C.S.; served in Ireland as
surgeon of 1st Regiment of Dundee Volunteers (Loyal Tay Fencibles)
during rebellion of 1798 until May 1802 when regiment was
disbanded; practised in village of Errol 1802–1807, and at Dundee
1807–50 surgeon to Dundee infirmary 30 years; performed operation
of lithotomy many times with great success. _d._ Dundee 28 March
1852.
BELL, ALEXANDER. Professor of elocution in London; author of
Practical elocutionist 1835; _The tongue, a poem_ 1846; _The
Bride, a play_ 1847; _Stammering and other impediments of speech_