Dillon Bell
Politician
1822 – 1898
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Who was Dillon Bell?
Sir Francis Dillon Bell KCMG CB MLC 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.
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- Born
- Oct 8, 1822
Bordeaux - Spouses
- Margaret Hort
(1849/04 - )
- Margaret Hort
- Children
- Died
- Jul 8, 1898
Otago Region
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on July 23, 2013
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