Bell was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Raven Society.
[7] The Kahler-Kreis group of intellectuals was named so by Charles Greenleaf Bell.
[citation needed] Bell was married firstly to Mildred Cheatham (later surnamed MacKenzie with her second husband) with whom he had three children, Nona, Charlotte, Delia.
His second wife was Diana Mason,[8] (known to her family and friends by the nickname 'Danny') she was the granddaughter of Sir John Middlemore, MP, they had two daughters, Carola Middlemore Bell and Sandra Bell.
In 2006, he moved to Maine to live with his daughter, where at the age of ninety-two he was still writing, working on a manuscript entitled Poetry and Translation.