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<p> an English divine, was born about 1731, and was educated at [[Magdalen]] College, Cambridge. He became prebendary of St. Paul's, and throughout a long life was noted for his piety, learning, and benevolence. In 1810 he founded eight new scholarships at [[Cambridge]] for the benefit of sons of poor clergymen. He died at [[Westminster]] in 1816. His writings include An Inquiry into the divine [[Mission]] of John the [[Baptist]] and of Christ (Lond. 1761, 8vo; 3d ed. 1810); [[Defence]] of Revelation (1756, 8vo); Authority, Nature, and [[Design]] of the Lord's Supper (1780, 8vo); Sermons on various Subjects (Lond. 1817, 2 vols. 8vo). '''''—''''' Darling, Cyclopedia Bibliographica, 1, 233; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, 1, 161. </p>
<p> Bell, [[William]] (5), </p> <p> an English Wesleyan missionary, was born at Lowth, Lincolnshire. His zeal and steadfastness when a local preacher, as well as his bodily vigor, induced the conference to send him upon his entering the itinerancy in 1822 as a missionary on the River Gambia, West Africa. [[Shortly]] after his arrival he was assailed with a violent fever, which occasioned his death, March 15, 1822, aged twenty-seven. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1822. </p>


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William Bell [1]

Bell, William (5),

an English Wesleyan missionary, was born at Lowth, Lincolnshire. His zeal and steadfastness when a local preacher, as well as his bodily vigor, induced the conference to send him upon his entering the itinerancy in 1822 as a missionary on the River Gambia, West Africa. Shortly after his arrival he was assailed with a violent fever, which occasioned his death, March 15, 1822, aged twenty-seven. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1822.

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