Born at Manchester. His brother was Thomas Bellot, Naval Surgeon and philologist (qv), and their father, Thomas Bellot, was a practising surgeon in Oldham Street, and a native of Derbyshire, who in 1818 gave evidence before a House of Lords Committee on Sir Robert Peel’s Factory Bill. Their mother was Jane Hale, daughter of Thomas Hale, of Darnhall, Cheshire, who claimed to be of the same family as Sir Matthew Hale. William Henry Bellot, like his brother Thomas (qv), was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, and was then apprenticed to his uncle, Dr Joseph Bellot, of Stockport. He attended Jordan’s School and the Royal Infirmary, and went to London to complete his professional training at Westminster Hospital, at University College Hospital, and in Paris. On returning to England he entered into partnership with his uncle at Stockport and eventually succeeded him. He was at one time Surgeon to the 1st Royal Cheshire Militia, and for about twenty years Surgeon to Military Hospitals and Inspector of Recruits. He was for above eleven years Operating and Visiting Surgeon to the Stockport Infirmary, and was also an Inspecting Surgeon under the Factory Act. In 1864 he moved to Moreton Lodge, Leamington Priors, and, having retired from practice, gave much attention to the affairs of local public institutions, being on the committee of the Warneford Hospital up to the time of his death. He was also Hon Medical Referee to the Home for British Incurables, London, an Hereditary Governor of the Royal Institution, Manchester, and a member of the British Medical Association. He died at Leamington on September 24th, 1895, leaving a widow and family. Mrs Bellot’s maiden name was Killer, and she was the daughter of an old-established Stockport practitioner. Thomas Bellot left his valuable collection of Chinese books and ancient bronzes to his brother for life, after which they were to go to the Manchester Free Library. Many of the books, however, were transferred at once, and formed the ‘Bellot Collection’. Hugh H A Bellot, son of William Henry Bellot, presented a number of valuable works from his father’s collection to the Library of the College in March, 1920. In one volume (Cooper’s Hernia, fol.) is his book-plate with motto ‘Toujours Bellot’ (Always Pretty). There is an old-fashioned photograph of William Henry Bellot in the Council Album. Publications: “De Pneumoniâ,” Latin Thesis, 1860. “Injuries to the Cranium.” – *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1852, ii, N.S. v, 369. Translation of Nélaton’s “Lecture upon Jordan’s Invention of Autoplastic Treatment of Ununited Fracture.” – *Ibid.*, 1856, ii, N.S. xiii, 270.