Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell GCMG, FRGS (17 December 1864 – 1 August 1952)[1] was a British colonial administrator and author.

Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell was born on 17 December 1864 at Chambéry in the Savoie department of south-east France.

After the Treasury authorized the funds for the work, the natives were moved from the fly-infested district on the shores of Lake Victoria to healthy locations inland.

[3] His conclusions were published as Foreign colonial administration in the Far East in 1928,[9] for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Empire Society.

In it he: Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell, GCMG, who lived at 92 Redcliffe Gardens, Kensington, died at a nursing home on 1 August 1952.

When she, in turn, died in 1968, her executors deposited Hesketh Bell's collection of photographs with the Royal Commonwealth Society.