He is also described as one of the founders of and contributors to the Dublin Inquisitor, and as the author of two dramatic pieces, Double Disguises and Comic Lectures.
At this period he was appointed editor of The Atlas, then one of the major London weekly papers, and ran it for many years.
[1] A member of the committee of the Royal Literary Fund, Bell helped struggling and unsuccessful men of letters, and his death on 12 April 1867 was much regretted.
In accordance with his request he was buried near the grave of his friend William Makepeace Thackeray, in Kensal Green Cemetery.
Bell wrote also a continuation, with W. Wallace, of Sir James Mackintosh's History of England (vols.