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{{Short description|British officer (1885–1956)}}<br />
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[[Lieutenant-general]] '''Harold Wilberforce-Bell''' (1885 in [[Portington, East Riding of Yorkshire|Portington]] – 1956) was an officer of the [[British Indian Army]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Karttunen |first1=Klaus |title=WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold |url=https://whowaswho-indology.info/23375/wilberforce-bell-harold/ |website=Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen |access-date=7 February 2024 |date=22 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=C. |last2=Jones |first2=P. |last3=Sinclair |first3=J. |last4=Weeks |first4=Jeffrey |title=Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951: Volume 2: A Guide to the Private Papers of Selected Public Services |date=30 December 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-15566-8 |page=15 |language=en}}</ref> who served as the [[Resident minister]] for the [[Punjab States Agency]] from [[Lahore]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dass |first1=Diwan Jarmani |title=Maharaja |date=26 August 2020 |publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited |isbn=978-93-5349-783-5 |page=97 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rich |first1=Paul John |title=Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf |date=2009 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7391-2705-6 |page=79 |language=en}}</ref> having previously served as an [[Indian Political Department|Agent]] to the [[Governor-General of India]] under the [[Deccan States Agency]] from [[Kolhapur]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ranade |first1=V. G. |author1-link=V. G. Ranade |title=Life of His Highness Raja Shreemant Sir Raghunathrao S.: Alias Babasaheb Pandit Pant Sachiv, K.C.I.E., Raja of Bhor |date=1951 |publisher=S. R. Sardesai |location=Pune |page=121 |language=en |oclc=29068518}}</ref> He enlisted in the British Indian Army in 1905, and served in the [[Indian Political Department]] from 1910 to 1940.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Srinivas |first1=Tulasi |title=Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics |date=1 November 2023 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-1-4384-9529-3 |page=171 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=McLeod |first1=John |title=Sovereignty, Power, Control: Politics in the States of Western India, 1916-1947 |date=1999 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-11343-5 |page=307 |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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Wilberforce-Bell also authored some [[Indology|Indological]] books while in India, most notably ''Some Translations from the Marathi Poets'' (1913), ''A Grammatical Treatise of the Marathi Language'' (1914), ''The history of Kathiawad from the earliest times'' (1916), and several articles on British [[military history]].<ref>{{cite book |last2=Rohatgi |first2=Pauline |author1=India Office Library and Records |title=Portraits in the India Office Library and Records |date=1983 |publisher=British Library |isbn=978-0-7123-0015-5 |page=244 |language=en}}</ref> He also reported on the British Raj for ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', ''[[The Yorkshire Post]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Webster |first1=Wendy |title=Englishness and Empire 1939-1965 |date=11 October 2007 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-164757-4 |page=60 |language=en}}</ref> and ''[[The Times]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sherif |first1=M. A. |title=Searching for Solace: A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an |date=1994 |publisher=Searching for Solace |isbn=978-983-9154-00-9 |page=146 |language=en}}</ref> His papers are held at the [[British Library]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Papers of Lt-Col Sir Harold Wilberforce-Bell, Indian Army 1905, Indian Political Service 1910-40 |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/a0e73bc1-4c1b-4fa9-9c84-b1ec444e9c03 |language=English |date=1904–1956}}</ref><br />
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Descended from [[landed gentry]] in [[Wiltshire]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Sir Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain |date=1921 |publisher=Burke Publishing Company |page=1295 |language=en}}</ref> he was also a member of the [[Athenaeum Club, London|Athenaeum Club]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wheeler |first1=Michael |title=The Athenaeum: Two Hundred Years of the London Club |date=11 September 2020 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-24677-3 |page=388 |language=en}}</ref> He was made a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1938.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Debrett's Peerage|Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage]] |date=1963 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |page=1255 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Selected works ==<br />
*''Some Translations from the Marathi Poets'' (1913)<br />
*''A Grammatical Treatise of the Marathi Language'' (1914)<br />
*''The history of Kathiawad from the earliest times'' (1916)<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Athenaeum Club members]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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