Letters of Sir Charles Bell, K.H., F.R.S.L. & E. : selected from his correspondence with his brother George Joseph Bell.

Date:
1870
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Credit: Letters of Sir Charles Bell, K.H., F.R.S.L. & E. : selected from his correspondence with his brother George Joseph Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    He died at the early age of thirty-two, and his parishioners, who deeply regretted his loss, raised an ornate tomb to his memory, near the rural little church of Gladsmuir.* He married the daughter of Major Learmonth, ot Newholm, and left several children; but cir- cumstances estranged them from each other • and in his son Wniiam^s Notes of my life for the perusal of my children, a casual allusion to my brothers is almost aU that is said of any but J oseph. Born in 1704, I was, he says, left at my parents' death, at four years of age, to the care of good friends whom Providence raised up for our support. . . . While at the University of Edin- burgh, and in my sister's house, by reading and conversation, I saw (by good Providence for me) the errors of my first education (my F.-f being a Presbyterian minister) ... in consequence hereof discovered the necessity, and had the comfort of being admitted a member of the Catholic and A^postolic Church in Scotland, and was b—23—d t by Bp. Fullerton (Jan. 8, 1^23). By this change, iio 1 lost the countenance of my relations (my Br. Joseph excepted), yet was never destitute of riends, but found utter strangers become such Having fixed on the Church as his profession, oL^B.]^'f' Demonology, refers to ohn BeU s two discom-ses on Witclicrafb as containing tke most ex- licit directions for the detection of those linked to the service of le enemy of mankind. + ^^^^e^- i Baptised.
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