Bell, Patrick ♂

Education

Student United College 1819-1820 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1820-1821 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Jun.; Log. 1821-1822 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics 1822-1823 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Physics 1823-1824 Chem. (Ternar).

Fallen bursary 1820, 1822.

Student St Mary’s College 1823-1827.

Part bursary, 1823, 1825, 1826.

LL.D. 8.2.1868.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 12.5.1799 son of George Bell, farmer Mid Leoch, Auchterhouse and Margaret Lunan.

Career

Tutor to Charles Baillie, later Lord Jerviswoode and to a family in Canada 1833 -1837. [Teacher]

Minister at Carmyllie 1843 - 22.4.1869 (died).

Invented the first practical reaping machine. [Inventor]

Death

[Died 22.4.1869.]

Sources

• UYUC400:25.11.1820, 23.11.1822
• UYSM400/4/11, 12c, 34
• DNB
• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• UYUC516:1822
• Alumnus Chronicle 21 p23f
• G.E. Fussell, The farmer’s tools (London, 1952)
• Scots Mag. Sept., 1962 p518
• Deaths Reg. Carmyllie 1869/9
• Patrick Bell in Wikipedia.