Elizabeth Gould Bell (24 December 1862 – 9 July 1934) was the first woman to practice as a qualified medical doctor in the north of Ireland—in Ulster—and was a vocal and militant suffragist.

In a protest action by the Women's Social and Political Union, in 1913-14, she engaged in a series of arson attacks directed against the Unionist establishment in Belfast.

He was a twenty-year-old medical student at Queen's University, Belfast, and a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, when, in November 1917, he died in a German field hospital in Belgium from wounds received at Passchendaele, the Second Battle of Ypres .

She was the medical officer (later honorary physician) to a precursor of the non-denominational Belfast Midnight Mission rescue and maternity home’ (later Malone Place Hospital), which assisted homeless and unmarried mothers.

In 1896 Bell wrote and published "A Curious Condition of Placenta and Membranes" for the annual report of the British Medical Association, North of Ireland Branch.

[5][3] Perhaps as early as her medical school days, Bell joined the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society (from 1909, the Irish WSS).

[8] In the WSS Bell associated the achievement of a full, equal, parliamentary franchise with ending "the conspiracy of silence" on a range of issues pressing upon women.

Weekly meetings in Belfast discussed temperance, infant mortality, sex education, venereal disease, white slave trafficking, protective factory legislation for women and equal opportunities.

[11] In the summer of 1913, IWSS militants announced, "if legalised protection of little children could be brought a week nearer by our vote, [they] defied ... women ... to say that we would not be right to burn down every public building in the land".

In March 1914, after being door-stepped for four days in London, Edward Carson ruled that Unionists could not take a position on so divisive an issue as women's suffrage.

Over the objections of Evans, Bell, McCracken and others, Christabel Pankhurst responded by directing an immediate and absolute cessation of the suffragette campaign throughout Britain and the closure of WSPU offices in Belfast.