Dillon Bell
New Zealand politician
Born on: October 8, 1822Died on: July 15, 1898
Aged: 75 years 280 days (909 months)
Birth Sign: Libra
Sir Francis Dillon Bell was a New Zealand politician of the late 19th century. He served as New Zealand's third Minister of Finance, and later as its third Speaker of the House.
The town of Bell Block near New Plymouth – on land Bell bought from the Puketapu iwi in 1849 – is named after him, as is Bell Street, Whanganui.
Bell's son, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, became the first New Zealand born Prime Minister in 1925.
Related People
New Zealand politician
New Zealand politician
New Zealand politician
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License