Arthur Ernest Bell

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Dr. Arthur Ernest Bell was the headmaster of Cheltenham Grammar School (CGS) from 1952 to 1970.

I attended CGS during the time my family lived in Cheltenham. For me this was from about October 1969 to June 1971. At the start of my time there our headmaster was a man I knew as Dr. A. E. Bell. He was nearing retirement when I began at the school (Dr. Bell was the headmaster from 1952 to 1970), and was a very interesting personality. I really liked him. He happened to teach an extracurricular class on Philosophy that was offered to older pupils, and I participated in it. Dr. Bell was a big fan of British philosopher Bertrand Russell, or at least he spoke highly and often of him. Recently I had an interest in finding out more about Dr. Bell, and I discovered that he was born on 18 February 1910 and died in July 1995, aged 85. He wrote at least three books, which I have in my collection.

Books by Dr. Bell

  • 1948 - Christian Huyghens and the Development of Science in the Seventeenth Century
  • 1961 - Newtonian Science
  • 1974 - A Sketch of the History of Richard Pate's Foundation in Cheltenham

Career

Among other positions, he once served as head of the Science Department at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, as well as at Clifton College. I had heard about Sandhurst, but never heard of Clifton College, and it turns out to have a degree of fame, too. It is located in Bristol, and is one of the original 26 English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889.