Name Robert Bell | Resigned September 18, 1937 | |
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Sir Robert Duncan Bell, KCSI, CIE (1878-1953) was the Acting governor of Bombay during the British Raj from 30 May 1937 to 18 September 1937.
Life
He was the son of William Bell, a type-setter with the Edinburgh Evening News and his wife, Christina Beveridge Malcolm. The family lived at 3 Gladstone Terrace in the Grange, Edinburgh, close to The Meadows.
He went to India in 1905 as a junior civil servant.
He was a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in the 1920s and present during the Bombay Riots of 1928/29.
He is buried with his parents in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh. The grave lies just to the west of the north face of the central vaults.
References
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