Lowthian Bell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lowthian Bell

Ironmaster, industrial chemist, railway owner

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1816

Place of Birth: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1904

Profession: businessperson, politician, inventor, chemist, metallurgist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet, FRS (18 February 1816 – 20 December 1904) was a Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, County Durham, in the north of England.
He was described as being "as famous in his day as Isambard Kingdom Brunel".Bell was an energetic and skilful entrepreneur as well as an innovative metallurgist.
He was involved in multiple partnerships with his brothers to make iron and alkali chemicals, and with other pioneers including Robert Stirling Newall to make steel cables.
He pioneered the large-scale manufacture of aluminium at his Washington works, conducting experiments in its production, and in the production of other chemicals such as the newly discovered element thallium.
He was a director of major companies including the North Eastern Railway and the Forth Bridge company, then the largest bridge project in the world. He was a wealthy patron of the arts, commissioning the architect Philip Webb, the designer William Morris and the painter Edward Burne-Jones on his Yorkshire mansions Rounton Grange and Mount Grace Priory.



Description	British painter
Date of birth/death	6 May 1857	9 August 1915
Location of birth/death	Sibsey	Chalford Hill
Work location	Newlyn
Authority control	: Q1229783 VIAF: 17496694 ISNI: 0000 0000 6660 7121 ULAN: 500016480 LCCN: nr93000111 Oxford Dict.: 67552 WorldCat