Bell Robert

Bell, Robert, journalist, was born in 1800 at Cork. Removing to London in 1828, he became editor of the Atlas, Monthly Chronicle, Mirror, and Home News. He wrote for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaidia, completed Southey's Naval History, and Mackintosh's History of England, and several plays and novels. His annotated edition of the British Poets from Chaucer to Cowper is his best known work. He died in 1867 in London.