Abstract
Charles Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1774 and died in 1842 at Hallow’ near Worcester, where he was buried. Both parents were connected with the episcopal Church of Scotland. Two of his brothers distinguished themselves—-John as an anatomist and surgeon and George as an authority on Scots law. Charles studied medicine at Edinburgh University, without however taking a degree, but qualified as a Fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons in 1799, having already as a student developed a strong interest in anatomy, which continued throughout his life. He was an attractive and imaginative artist, qualities which are particularly in evidence in his Essays on the anatomy of expression (1806) and his Bridgewater Treatise on The hand (1833), of which Sherrington used to speak with admiration.
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