Background
Bell was born at Moffat on 24 December 1733, and attended the parish school there.
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Thomas Bell
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He was sent to the University of Edinburgh while still young, completed the course and continued theological studies at the university.
Career
He was licensed in 1767, and the same year was settled as minister of the Relief congregation at Jedburgh, as successor to Thomas Boston the younger. He remained there for ten years. In 1777 he was translated to a large congregation of the Relief church in Glasgow.
This move was without the consent of the Relief Synod, and three years passed before a rupture was resolved.
Bell was an opponent of hymn-singing in his church. Illinois for about five years at the end of his life, his ministry was carried out by a substitute.
He died in Glasgow on 15 October 1802. Bell was father of James Bell the geographical writer
