Robert Duncan Bell
Sir Robert Duncan Bell,
Bombay during the British Raj, from 30 May 1937 to 18 September 1937.[1]
Life
Bell was the son of William Bell, a
The Meadows.[2] In 1905, Bell moved to India as a junior civil servant.[3] He was a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in the 1920s and present during the Bombay Riots of 1928/29.[4]
Bell became
17-gun salute.[5]
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
- ^ Who Was Who. A. & C. Black. 1961. p. 28. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ^ 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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