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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.

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

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 Dr. Bell was primarily involved in education. And as a student of science, one of his great interests was the teaching of the history of science, as evidenced by two of the books he wrote. Among other positions, he taught at the University College of London (UCL), and was head of the science departments at both Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
-During his time teaching at UCL, he studied with famed professor Abraham Wolf (1876-1948), who lectured as Professor of Logic and Scientific Method from 1920 to 1941. Wolf's book, ''A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 16 and 17th Centuries'', published in 1935, clearly had a great influence upon Dr. Bell.
+During his time teaching at UCL, he studied with famed professor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wolf Abraham Wolf] (1876-1948), who lectured as Professor of Logic and Scientific Method from 1920 to 1941. Wolf's book, ''A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 16 and 17th Centuries'', published in 1935, clearly had a great influence upon Dr. Bell.
 ==Books by Dr. 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, 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.
+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, 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.
-==Books by Dr. Bell==
+== A Brief Biography ==
-* 1948 - ''Christian Huygens and the Development of Science in the Seventeenth Century''
+He died on 14 July 1995 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, aged 85. Unfortunately he suffered from dementia caused by cerebral arteriosclerosis in those final years, which is what led to his death.
 ==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.
+Dr. Bell was primarily involved in education. And as a student of science, one of his great interests was the teaching of the history of science, as evidenced by two of the books he wrote. Among other positions, he taught at the University College of London (UCL), and was head of the science departments at both Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
-What is a "public school"? See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) HERE] on Wikipedia. Clifton College happened to be the headquarters of the US Army in Britain during part of the Second World War. General Omar Bradley used the school's buildings as a staff office from October to November 1944.
+* 1948 - ''Christian Huygens and the Development of Science in the Seventeenth Century'' - A history of science as it developed during the time of Christian Huygens

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	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.		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.