Honours, Awards and Achievements
Bell served as a juror at International Exhibitions in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Paris in 1878. He was accordingly made an honorary member of the American Philosophical Institution and an officer of the Legion d'Honneur.
Bell became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1874 as someone "distinguished for his practical and scientific knowledge of Chemistry and Metallurgy" (and author of) "various reports and papers on chemical and metallurgical subjects, published in the transactions of various learned Societies".
In 1877 he founded the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain (later the Royal Institute of Chemistry). He became a fellow of the Chemical Society of London, and president of the Society of Chemical Industry.
Bell founded the Iron and Steel Institute and was its president from 1873 to 1875. In 1874 he became the first recipient of the gold medal instituted by Sir Henry Bessemer.
In the 1881 Census, taken on 3 April, Bell was recorded as a visitor at the house of his daughter Maisie and her husband the Hon. Edward L. Stanley, M.P. in Harley Street, London. He gave his occupation as "Magistrate, Deputy Lieutenant, Iron Master".
In 1882 he became a director of the Forth Bridge company. At that time this was the world's largest bridge project.
Bell became president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1884 and was made a baronet in 1885. As baronet he adopted the motto Perseverantia (perseverance) and the arms "Argent on a Fess between three Hawk's Lures Azure as many Hawk's Bells of the first".
He was awarded the George Stephenson Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1890, and the "Telford premium" from the same institution, both for papers that he presented there.
In 1895 Bell was awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, in recognition of the services he has rendered to Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, by his metallurgical researches and the resulting development of the iron and steel industries.
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