Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet, CB, JP, DL, FSA (10 February 1844 – 29 June 1931) was an English industrialist, landowner, Justice of the Peace, and administrator.

He was, like his father, a director of the North Eastern Railway, and had a private platform on the line between Middlesbrough and Redcar, at the bottom of the garden of his house, Red Barns.

When the train did not leave on time, they went on talking, until at last a guard came up to them and said "If you would like to finish your conversation, Sir Hugh, we will then be ready to depart.

[5] His friendship with the architect Philip Webb led to three commissions in the Middlesbrough area – of Rounton Grange, built for his father in the 1870s and demolished in 1953,[6] Red Barns House[7] and the Dorman Long office building, originally that of Bell Brothers, in Middlesbrough, which was Webb's only commercial development.

[9] He was the son of the wealthy pioneering ironmaster Lowthian Bell and his wife, Margaret Pattinson.