Born on April 22nd, 1810, at Holywell, a small Bedfordshire village near Hitchin. His father was a yeoman farmer sprung from long generations of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire farmers, some of whom had been close personal friends of John Bunyan, the earlier generations being Puritans, the later Unit

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 w