Education
Westminster School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Westminster School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1923, and then became a local councillor. Born in Seend in Wiltshire, Bell was the oldest four children of four children of William Heward Bell (1849–1927) and Hannah Taylor Cory (1850–1942). The family was raised at Cleeve House near Melksham, a "monstrosity" of a house expanded with a fortune made in the family"s coal mines in Merthyr Tydfil.
Bell was educated at Westminster School before training at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
He was commissioned in the Royal Horse Artillery in 1895 and served in the Second Boer War. He was re-elected in 1922, but at the 1923 election he was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Eric Macfadyen.
After his defeat, Bell did not stand for Parliament again. In 1903, Bell married Violet Mary Bowley, the daughter of a Royal Engineers officer
They had two children.
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William senior was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1912, a director of the Great Western Railway and of Nixon"s Navigation Company, and a member of Avon Vale Hunt. Bell was elected at the 1918 general election as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Devizes division of Wiltshire.
He became a member of Wiltshire County Council, and served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1932, became a Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1952, as also served as a Justice of the Peace for Wilthshire.