High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benjamin Bell was a Scottish surgeon. Bell was born in Dumfries and educated in that town. His family owned Blackett House in Middlebie Parish, which Bell was later to sell to fund the education of himself and his family. He became an apprentice to a surgeon in Dumfries, before moving to Edinburgh in to study medicine at the University there under the tutelage of Alexander Monro, Joseph Black and John Hope. He visited London and Paris shortly after becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. After two years, he returned and worked in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for 29 years and grew wealthy from private practice. Towards the end of the 18th Century, he published several important medical works