Lang Syne English Family Information History Fact Book - Bell

A name particularly associated from earliest times with the north of England, many of the Bells, along with their Scottish namesakes, gained notoriety as one of the unruly Border families.

Others achieved high honours and distinction through more peaceful endeavours and pursuits that most notably include medicine, engineering and the sciences.

Joseph Bell, born in 1837, was the surgeon recognised as having been the main inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes.

It was while Bell, a pioneer in the field of forensic pathology, was a lecturer at the medical school of Edinburgh University that Doyle attended his classes.

Recognised as the inventor of the first practical telephone, Alexander Graham Bell was the pioneering Scots-born engineer and scientist who first tested the device in his laboratory in Boston in 1876

Read here of the inspiring lives and times of the Bells of both yesteryear and today.

Book Dimensions 10 × 0.4 × 14.5 cm