Short Name: | Robert Bell |
Full Name: | Bell, Robert |
Birth Year: | 1806 |
Death Year: | 1869 |
Robert Bell was born in 1806 in Colne, UK. He attended Airedale College and became a minister serving Providence Congregational Church, Stainland; West End Congregational Church, Sowerby Bridge; and Bridge End Congregational Church, Brighouse. Along with Joseph Cockin Hoatson, he edited The Halifax Selection of Hymns. He resigned from the ministry due to poor health and lived on a farm near Colne.
Dianne Shapiro, from "Malcom Bull's Calderdale Companion (http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~calderdalecompanion/history/mmb87.html), accessed 5/1t/2021
Hymnals by Robert Bell (1) | As | Publication Year |
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The Halifax Selection of Hymns: intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns | R. Bell (Editor) | 1834 |