Bell, Andrew ♂

Education

Student United College 1768-1772 [ ],s,t,m (Ternar) Guild bursar UC Min 21.10.1768. Glendee bursar. Chancellor’s prize 2nd maths class. UC Min. 15.5.1771. Chancellor’s prize Magistrand class. UC Min. 4.6.1772.

M.D. (honorary) 15.2.1787. D.D. 5.10.1811 (gratis)

Birth/childhood

Born 27.3.1753 son of Baillie Alexander Bell, barber, St Andrews and Margaret Robertson.

Career

Tutor in Virginia 1774 -1781. Ordained in Church of England. In India 1787 - 1796. Rector Swanage 1801 - 1809. Master Sherburn Hospital, Durham 1809 -. [Teacher, minister]

Involved all his life in organising schools on the Madras system. Left £120,000 for educational purposes. Chair of education in St Andrews University founded by his trustees in 1876. F.R.S.E. 1800.

Death

Died 27.1.1832.

Sources

• DNB
• R. Southey, Life of Andrew Bell (London: 1844)
• Madras Coll. Mag. 18 no2 1907