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Bell, Sir (Henry Hesketh Joudou, 1864-1952, Knight, colonial governor)

 Person

Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:

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[King of Buganda and self in motor car], 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/26
Scope and Contents 81 x 81 mm. Showing Bell and the young Kabaka of Buganda Daudi Chwa seated in the back seat of the motor car, with an unidentified European in the front seat. Hesketh Bell records the arrival of the motor car in Uganda: '20th April [1908] ... some months ago I ordered from Home a motor car for my use and a motor lorry, and they have arrived. Both are of 'Albion' make. These are the first motor cars ever seen in Uganda and they are making a great sensation among the natives. They are...
Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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King of Buganda and self in motor car, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/31
Scope and Contents 87 x 87 mm. Showing Bell and the young Kabaka of Buganda Daudi Chwa seated in the back seat of the motor car, with an unidentified European in the front seat. Hesketh Bell records the arrival of the motor car in Uganda: '20th April [1908] ... some months ago I ordered from Home a motor car for my use and a motor lorry, and they have arrived. Both are of 'Albion' make. These are the first motor cars ever seen in Uganda and they are making a great sensation among the natives. They are...
Dates: 1908 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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La Cambuse, 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/70
Scope and Contents

97 x 72 mm. Showing Bell and his dog seated on rocks on the seashore. Exact location unidentified.

Dates: 1919 - 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Le Reduit, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/56
Scope and Contents

98 x 72 mm. View looking across the lawn towards the rear façade of Le Reduit, with Bell and two Naval officers (one of them probably Myers) standing in the foreground.

Dates: 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Le Reduit. Garden front, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/40
Scope and Contents

100 x 76 mm. View looking across the lawn towards the rear façade of Le Reduit, with Bell standing on the grass.

Dates: 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lightfoot, Regnard and Self, 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/85
Scope and Contents

100 x 140 mm. Uniformed group photographed inside a room. Regnard has not been identified, but was perhaps a Mauritian A.D.C.

Dates: 1921 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lion cubs at play, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/92
Scope and Contents

Showing Bell playing with his two pet lion cubs on the lawn of Government House, Entebbe.

Dates: 1906 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Little 'Jimmie', 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/147
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53 x 85 mm. Showing Bell holding a small monkey.

Dates: 1908 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lt. Col. Godfrey C.B. Denham, 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/94
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. Showing HHB and Denham on the occasion of Bell's return to Mauritius, March 1923.

Dates: 1923-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mauritius. June 1916 [Portrait of Hesketh Bell], 1916-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/50
Scope and Contents

120 x 140 mm. Head and shoulders watercolour portrait of Bell, painted by Gabriel Gillet, June 1916.

Dates: 1916-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mauritius Volunteers at Vacoas, 1916-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/75
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126 x 76 mm. Showing Mauritius Volunteers parading before Bell at a review held on 19 October 1916.

Dates: 1916-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mauritius Volunteers at Vacoas, 1916-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/76
Scope and Contents

127 x 76 mm. Showing Mauritius Volunteers parading before Bell at a review held on 19 October 1916.

Dates: 1916-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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May 8th 1922, Mauritius, 1922-05-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/152
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135 x 90 mm. View showing HHB saluting in front of Queen Victoria's statue with a guard of honour drawn up. This was the day HHB went on leave. Photograph by Mrs. Gilchrist.

Dates: 1922-05-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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May 1911, 1911-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/2
Scope and Contents

156 x 109 mm. Showing Bell seated on a horse.

Dates: 1911-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Memorial to Governor David, 1921 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/72
Scope and Contents

80 x 105 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

Dates: 1921 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mlles Adam, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/86
Scope and Contents

71 x 121 mm. Showing Bell standing on a pier (probably at Blue Bay) with the three daughters of Pierre Adam.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mounted escort, Antigua [meeting of Legislative Council, 1914], 1914-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/10
Scope and Contents

248 x 198 mm. Showing Bell and his A.D.C. Benyon seated in a carriage on the way to the opening of the Legislative Council, with an armed mounted escort.

Dates: 1914-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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My 38 h.p. Daimler, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/42
Scope and Contents

134 x 79 mm. Showing Bell seated in his Daimler on the drive in front of Le Reduit.

Dates: 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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My aquarium, Blue Bay, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/89
Scope and Contents

74 x 99 mm. Showing Bell seated beside the stone aquarium built by him near the waters edge at Blue Bay in 1916.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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My box, 1919 - 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/36
Scope and Contents

119 x 82 mm. Showing Bell and other Europeans in the Governor's box in the grandstand at Champ de Mars Race Course.

Dates: 1919 - 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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My buffalo, killed near Matiana, 1906 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/72
Scope and Contents

Showing Bell standing with his rifle beside the body of a buffalo.

Dates: 1906 - 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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My first buck (Cobus Kob) in Uganda. Near Mruli, 1907, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/15
Scope and Contents

Showing Bell standing over the body of a dead antelope, with two dogs beside him and tents in the background.

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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My first elephant [1907], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/32
Scope and Contents

Showing Bell sitting on the body of a dead elephant. The killing of Bell's first elephant, near Mbarara, is described in Bell (1946), pp. 149-151, Bell (1907-1909), January 21 1907 and Bell (1907), January 21.

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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My first waterbuck [1907], 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/34
Scope and Contents

Showing Bell, rifle in hand, standing beside the body of a waterbuck. The killing of the beast is described in Bell (1907), February 15.

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[My office at Zungeru. 1911], 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/63
Scope and Contents

105 x 77 mm. Showing Bell seated at work at a desk in his office.

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Africa (continent) 98
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North and Central America (continent) 39