Sir Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet
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Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet, was an English industrialist, landowner, Justice of the Peace, and administrator. A Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham, he was High Sheriff of Durham in 1895 and Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1906 to 1931. He joined his family firm, Bell Brothers, and became director of its steelworks at Middlesbrough.
Bell with his daughter Gertrude in 1876, by Edward Poynter
Former Bell Brothers and Dorman Long office building designed by Phillip Speakman Webb
Losh, Wilson and Bell
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Losh, Wilson and Bell, later Bells, Goodman, then Bells, Lightfoot and finally Bell Brothers, was a leading Northeast England manufacturing company, founded in 1809 by the partners William Losh, Thomas Wilson, and Thomas Bell.
Watercolour painting by John Bell of the Bell Ironworks under construction at Port Clarence, c. 1853
Lowthian Bell, by Frank Bramley. National Railway Museum, York
Losh, Wilson and Bell constructed the approaches for the Newcastle-Gateshead High Level Bridge, c. 1852
Cornish beam engine, Springhead Pumping Station: 90" engine by Bells Lightfoot