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Henry Glassford Bell

Henry Glassford Bell (November 8, 1803 - 1874), a Scottish lawyer and man of letters, was born at Glasgow.

He received his education at the Glasgow high school and at Edinburgh University. He became intimate with Delta Moir, James Hogg, John Wilson (Christopher North), and others of the brilliant staff of Blackwood's Magazine, to which he was drawn by his political sympathies. In 1828 he became editor of the Edinburgh Literary Journal, which was eventually incorporated in the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.

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