Jacob Bell

Pharmacist and politician.

No known connections with slavery.

Aged 12, Jacob Bell was sent to his uncle’s school near Darlington for four years. The school had a good reputation with well-to-do Quakers. Jacob’s essays, which were written there, against war and slavery set out views he was to hold all his life. (Briony Hudson, ‘High spirits and irreverence coupled with sociability: the life of Jacob Bell’, The Pharmaceutical Journal, 5 June 2009.)

Donor: bequeathed in 1859: NG603–621 (all transferred to Tate, except NG621).

J. Burnby, 'Bell, Jacob', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2006
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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