Alexander Bell (Victorian politician)

Alexander Bell (20 July 1850[1] – 27 March 1931) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.

He was born in Dunfermline, Fifeshire to miner Alexander Bell and Sophia Williamson.

On 2 April 1874 he married Jessie Scott, with whom he had nine children.

In 1917 he won a by-election for Wellington Province in the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Nationalist Party.

[4] Bell Street in the south Ballarat suburb of Redan is named after him.