Thomas Bell (16 December 1785 – 30 April 1860) was a land surveyor, antiquary and book seller.
His father was John Bell (1755–1816), like the son a land surveyor and book seller.
[2] Later in his life, especially after his father's death, Thomas Bell became one of the principal land surveyors of his time and place, numbering among his clients, the Dukes of Northumberland and the Earls of Strathmore.
[2] The ongoing enclosure of (previously) common land by commercial farmers and, by the middle of the nineteenth century, the building of major railway lines provided abundant work for a well connected land surveyor.
Although he was not himself a prolific author (he wrote one children's book), he did accumulate various manuscript researches on matters which interested him.