Gordon and the Sudan

With the trade ticket of Hugh Rees of Regent Street on front paste-down. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR HUMPHREY BELL AND BEARS HIS SIGNATURE (DATED JANUARY 1932 IN KHARTOUM) ON FRONT ENDPAPER. IT WAS LATER PRESENTED BY HIM TO HIS ALMA MATER WITH ITS PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. One of the greatest English public servants of the Sudan, Sir [Bernard] Humphrey Bell (1884-1959) was the second son of the Rev. J.T. Bell, headmaster of Christ's Hospital School (then at Hertford). Educated at CH (1894-1903), Bell won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, whence he graduated BA in 1906. In the following year he joined the Sudan Political Service and in 1912 married Lilian Constance Bagot, daughter of he Rev. G.P. Dew. In 1917 he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, and from 1918-1923 served in Baghdad, first as President of the Court of First Instance and subsequently as President of the Court of Appeal. In 1923 he returned to Sudan as Judge of the High Court, first having been appointed CBE in that year. He became Chief Justice of the Sudan in 1926, and in 1929 received the insignia of the second class of the Order of the Nile from the King of Egypt. From 1930-1936 he served as Legal Secretary to the Government of the Sudan, after which he retired and was created KBE. During WWII he served as Assistant Legal Advisor to the Home Office. Sir Humphrey Bell died in Hampshire in 1959. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY.