Bell co-founded the League Against Cruel Sports in 1925 and, in 1929, received a lifetime award for his advocacy work for animals.

[1] He was educated at St Paul's School, London and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1873 with an BA and an MA in 1876.

[2] During his time at Cambridge, Bell had joined the RSPCA in 1873 and the following year had become a vegetarian after reading T. L. Nichols' pamphlet How to Live on Sixpence a Day.

[9] For thirty years, Bell was the Honorary Secretary of the Hampstead Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

[10] Bell founded the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports in 1925 with Henry B. Amos and George Greenwood as first president.

[11] He became chairman of the board of directors of George Bell & Sons in 1926 and, in 1929, he received a lifetime award from a collaboration between 22 different animal societies.

[2] He also co-founded and worked for a number of animal and vegetarian organisations:[1][7][9] Bell died in Hendon on 14 September 1933, at the age of 82.

[3] Tributes were paid to him in the publications Animal World and The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, as well as from Henry B. Amos and Stephen Coleridge.