Robert Duncan Bell
Sir Robert Duncan Bell, KCSI, CIE (1878 – 1953) was the Acting Governor of Bombay during the British Raj, from 30 May 1937 to 18 September 1937.
Life
Bell was the son of William Bell, a typesetter with the Edinburgh Evening News, and his wife, Christina Beveridge Malcolm. The family lived at 3 Gladstone Terrace in the Grange, Edinburgh, close to The Meadows.[1] In 1905, Bell moved to India as a junior civil servant.[2] He was a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in the 1920s and present during the Bombay Riots of 1928/29.[3]
Bell became Acting Governor of Bombay on 30 May 1936, after Governor Lord Brabourne went on leave with his wife, Lady Brabourne. Bell was sworn in with a 17-gun salute.[4]
Bell is buried with his parents in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh. The grave lies just to the west of the north face of the central vaults.
References
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1878-9
- ^ The India List and India Office List, 1905
- ^ State Violence and Punishment in India, Taylor Sherman
- ^ "Social and Personal", Great Britain and the East (1936), p746. Accessed 2 May 2018.
External
- "Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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