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elected member of Parliament for North Durham; his object was to press the government to support technical education in Britain
1875
Lowthian wins by-election as member of Parliament for Hartlepool
1876
Sir Edward Poynter paints Gertrude and Hugh
Rounton Grange complete
August
Hugh Bell marries Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe on the 10th
1877
Lowthian Bell is founding organizer of the British Institute of Chemistry (later, Royal Institute)
Queen Victoria declared empress of India
1878
Lowthian Bell awarded Légion d’Honneur
GLB’s half-brother Hugh (Hugo) born
1879
GLB’s half-sister Elsa born
1880
Lowthian Bell resigns from Parliament
1881
GLB’s half-sister Mary (Molly) born
1882
Forth Bridge Railway Company formed to construct and operate the world’s largest bridge; Hugh Bell appointed as a director
1884
Lowthian Bell appointed high sheriff of County Durham; rebuilds East Rounton church; his masterwork is published,
Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel: With Some Notes on the Economic Conditions of Their Production
Hugh again elected mayor of Middlesbrough; River Tees ferry
Hugh Bell
launched
April
GLB attends Queen’s College, London, living with stepgrandmother, Lady Olliffe, at 95 Sloane Street
1885
Lowthian Bell accepts baronetcy
Maurice Bell goes to Eton College, there until 1889
1886 April
GLB attends Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
July–August
Lodges with a family in Weilheim, Germany
November
Grandmother Dame Margaret Bell dies on the 18th
1887
Great-uncle John Bell, Sir Lowthian’s business partner , dies
1888 June
GLB leaves Oxford with first-class honors
December
Stays in Bucharest with Sir Frank and Mary Lascelles (aunt); meets Valentine Chirol and Charles Hardinge; befriended by Queen Elizabeth of Romania (aka Carmen Sylva)
1889
GLB returns with cousin Billy Lascelles via Constantinople and Paris
GLB acts as housekeeper for her stepmother at Red Barns; does social work in Middlesbrough
GLB “comes out” in the London season, presented to Queen Victoria
GLB aids Florence’s group studying lives of local working families; becomes treasurer of its committee
War in South Africa resumes after Boer attack on Cape Colony
1891
Washington New Hall given away as an orphanage, named Dame Margaret’s Hall
1892 April
GLB travels to Persia with cousin Florence Lascelles to stay with her parents in Tehran; studies Persian; begins reading the poetry of Hafiz; romance with legation secretary Henry Cadogan in Tehran; betrothal intended
July
Hugh Bell stands for Parliament as a Unionist Party candidate, unsuccessful
December
GLB’s parents refuse permission for her to marry Cadogan, she returns to London with cousin Gerald Lascelles
1893
Cadogan dies
January
GLB goes to Switzerland and northern Italy with Mary Talbot
April
Travels to Algiers with father to visit great-uncle John Bell’s widow, Lizzie
May
Returns to London with Mary Talbot via Switzerland and Weimar where Maurice is staying
June–December
GLB in England, learning Persian and Latin; starts Arabic studies
1894 January–February
GLB and Hugh tour Italy
March–July
GLB in England;
Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures
published
1895
Sir Lowthian awarded Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (granted the right to use the term
Royal
in 1908)
September
GLB in England working on
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
1896 March–April
GLB visits Italy with Hugh; takes Italian lessons
September
GLB visits the Lascelles, Ambassador Sir Frank and Lady Mary, at embassy country house in Potsdam
October–December
Retums to England, continues Persian and Arabic studies
1897 January–March
With cousin Florence visits the Lascelles in Berlin; takes tea with the German emperor and empress
April
Lady Mary Lascelles dies
June
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
published
July–August
GLB begins climbing during family visit to La Grave, France
December
GLB and Maurice go on world tour,