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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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[Presentation of prizes, Inter-Island Sports, April 1913], 1913-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/41
Scope and Contents

123 x 100 mm. A slightly blurred print showing Bell presenting the Inter-Island Cricket Challenge Shield, probably to Mr. Peters, captain of the winning Antigua team (possibly James Edwards Peters, appointed Clerk to the Magistrate in 1895).

Dates: 1913-04
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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[Princess Marie Louise arriving at Government House, Antigua], 1913-03 - 1913-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/55
Scope and Contents

125 x 86 mm. Showing Bell, Princess Marie Louise and two other figures seated in a carriage standing in the driveway of Government House.

Dates: 1913-03 - 1913-04
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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Reception of Chiefs at Lokoja. Sept. 1910, 1910-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/112
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198 x 148 mm. Showing Bell walking away from a corrugated iron building decorated with flags. Bell's visit is briefly described in his letters of September 1910, although the reception is not mentioned.

Dates: 1910-09
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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Return to Antigua, 28.9.14, 1914-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/5
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126 x 98 mm. Showing Bell stepping from a steam launch on to the jetty at St. John's.

Dates: 1914-09
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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Return to Mauritius, March 1923, 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/91
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. Showing Bell arriving by launch.

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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Return to Mauritius March 1923, 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/92
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. HHB and guard of honour.

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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Return to Mauritius March 1923., 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/93
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. HHB by his car.

Dates: 1923
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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[Return to Mauritius March 1923], 1923-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011K/95
Scope and Contents

110 x 85 mm. Showing HHB in his car as it drives off.

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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Review of Antigua Volunteers, Oct. 1914, 1914-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/7
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126 x 100 mm. Showing Bell and Major Ledeath on horseback, with members of the Antigua Volunteer Defence Force in the background. This special parade took place on 7 October 1914.

Dates: 1914-10
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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[Review of troops, 7 October 1914], 1914-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/9
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125 x 79 mm. Showing Bell, Major Ledeatt and men of the Antigua Volunteer Defence Force, raising their hats to cheer the King at the special parade held on 7 October 1914.

Dates: 1914-10
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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Self and Sir Apolo Kagwa, 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/3
Scope and Contents

96 x 119 mm. Showing Bell and Sir Apolo Kagwa standing on the verandah of a house, probably in Kampala.

Dates: 1899
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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Sharwell's, Milford on Sea. May [1911], 1911-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/3
Scope and Contents

165 x 121 mm. Showing Bell seated on a garden bench with two young children. No further information has been found as to the identity of the Sharwells.

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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Shot at M.G. Antelme's, 1917 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011J/84
Scope and Contents

90 x 68 mm. Showing Bell seated with a rifle beside a dead stag.

Dates: 1917 - 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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[Silhouette of Bell, 1911], 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/117
Scope and Contents

A paper silhouette, giving a head and shoulders profile portrait of Bell.

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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[Sir Henry Hesketh Bell], 1913 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/59
Scope and Contents

87 x 87 mm. Showing Bell standing in uniform on the steps of Government House, St. John's.

Dates: 1913 - 1914
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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[Sir Henry Hesketh Bell], 1917 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/88
Scope and Contents

85 x 82 mm.

Dates: 1917 - 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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[Sir Henry Hesketh Bell], 1911-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/155
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283 x 205 mm. A full length portrait of Bell, dressed in a civilian suit and wearing a pith helmet, standing beside a railway locomotive. A photograph probably taken at Zungeru.

Dates: 1911-02
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).
 Fonds

Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C-N
Scope and Contents A collection of prints by various photographers. Bell makes mention several times in his letters and diaries of taking photographs and many of the prints in the collection are evidently snapshots taken by him or by someone using his camera. Some professional work is included in the albums, the two most prominent photographers being Alfred Lobo (Uganda) and Jose Anjo (Dominica). In addition, Y3011F contains work by such well-known London photographers as Elliot and Fry, Maull and Fox,...
Dates: 1866 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36
Scope and Contents

Diaries, notebooks, letters, scrapbooks and publications. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.

Dates: 1889 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Sporting trophies [1906?], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011C/79
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Showing a European group posed with elephant tusks, animal skins and antelope skulls. Bell is seated in the centre with Frank Burton on the ground at the front. The figure at the left is possibly Frederick Knowles. The remaining man is unidentified.

Dates: 1906
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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Statue of the Virgin Mary, 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.7.01
Scope and Contents This porcelain statue bears the tag, ‘Found in ruins of St. Pierre, miraculously preserved 1902’. It was recovered from the ruins of St. Pierre, Martinique, in June 1902, by Sir Hesketh Bell, Administrator of Dominica, who visited immediately after the eruption of Mt. Pelée, ‘To our intense surprise, we found that this image was almost entirely undamaged, the hands and feet only having been broken off. This was a really an amazing thing, as it lay almost completely covered by big stones and...
Dates: 1902
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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[Summerhouse, Government House, Dominica], 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/104
Scope and Contents

87 x 95 mm. A view showing Bell working at a desk in an open-sided summerhouse with a thatched roof. The location has been identified by Lennox Honeychurch.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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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[Summerhouse, Government House, Dominica], 1912 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G/105
Scope and Contents

87 x 95 mm. A view showing Bell working at a desk in an open-sided summerhouse with a thatched roof. The location has been identified by Lennox Honeychurch.

Dates: 1912 - 1913
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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Sylvania. 1912, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011E/18
Scope and Contents

128 x 79 mm. Showing Bell and an unidentified couple standing in front of the verandah of the bungalow of Sylvania, Bell's experimental plantation in Dominica.

Dates: 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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The members of the Entebbe Golf Club, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/20
Scope and Contents

205 x 149 mm. A group photograph with Bell seated in the centre behind the 'Hesketh Bell Challenge Cup' presented by him in January 1909. W.H. Nicholson and Dr. H.B. Owen, joint winners of the new cup, which was played for on January 22 and 23, are seated on either side of Bell. Photograph by Alfred Lobo.

Dates: 1909-01
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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