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From this period he gradually attained considerable practice. He 
was made Procurator for the Church of Scotland, and Sheriff of 
Berwickshire in 1842. Mr Bell had, besides his legal acquirements, 
a highly cultivated mind. He was fond of mathematical reason- 
ing as a recreation, and did not further apply it. In art he had 
excellent taste ; and indeed was considered by picture-dealers to have 
great knowledge of the old Masters, and much tact to discriminate 
their styles. He made, from his own judgment, a collection of Bern- 
brandt etchings, considered one of the most complete in the king- 
dom. Mr Bell was a member of the Bannatyne Club, and not an 
inactive member. He was a great reader, and deeply conversant espe- 
cially Avith works on philology. Those who knew him well bear high 
testimony to his varied powers of conversation, and his skill in discuss- 
ing and elucidating subjects that were brought forward in society. 
A certain George Campbell having injured his property by adhe- 
rence to his chief, the first Marquis of Argyle, during the trying 
times of the Covenant in 1662, left the Highlands, and became the 
proprietor of the estate of Baltulla in the neighbourhood of St An- 
drews. The great-grandson of that George Campbell was the Bev. 
Dr George Campbell, for fifty-four years the minister of Cupar-Fife. 
In 1776, Dr Campbell married Miss Hallyburton, who was con- 
nected with some Scottish families of rank, of whom one was Wed- 
derburn, Lord Chancellor. The fruit of this marriage was five 
daughters and two sons. Of the sons, the elder was Sir G. Campbell 
of Edenwood ; the second was John Campbell, born at Springfield, 
near Cupar, September 15, 1781, afterwards destined to rise by 
his own talents and industry to become a peer of the realm, Chief- 
Justice of the Queen’s Bench, and Lord Chancellor of England. 
Lord Campbell was always proud of his connection with the Argyle 
family and with Scotland .He showed this by his kindly and interest- 
ed allusions to the Campbell clan, which very frequently show them- 
selves in his 11 Lives of the Chancellors and when Lord Chancellor 
himself he marked his feelings as a Scotchman by thanking most 
warmly the author of an idle book, called “ Beminiscences of Scottish 
Life and Character,” when the writer was presented to him, for the 
great pleasure he had derived from these old stories of a bygone 
Scottish race. He showed also more decidedly his love for Scotland 
by purchasing Scottish property, and living in Scotland as much as 
