Sir Hugh Bell We regret to record the death on
Monday of that remarkable Victorian figure, Sir Hugh Bell. He was eighty-seven, but no one who marked his alert figure and his resonant voice, even in the last few weeks, would have credited him with such a tale of years. His father, the great chemical manufacturer and ironmaster, Sir Lowthian Bell, trained him as his successor in the business which he entered at eighteen and in which he took an active interest to the end. He had intended to be present at the opening of the bridge over Sydney Harbour, which his firm, Messrs. Dorman Long, have built. Sir Hugh always showed a very lively interest - in industrial and local affairs. In politics he was an old- fashioned Liberal and a resolute Free Trader, and fought a forlorn hope in the City of London in January, 1910, against the late Lord (then Mr.) Balfour. He liked in later years to describe himself as an Individualist, and he had devoted much time and labour to the recent Friends of Economy campaign.
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