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March 27, 1753, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland
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January 27, 1832, Cheltenham, England (aged 78)
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Andrew Bell (born March 27, 1753, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland—died January 27, 1832, Cheltenham, England) was a Scottish clergyman who developed popular education by the method of supervised mutual teaching among students. Bell graduated from the University of St. Andrews and went as a tutor to Virginia in colonial North America, where, in addition to teaching, he made a small fortune trading tobacco. He returned to Great Britain in 1781 and continued tutoring at St. Andrews but sought ordination in the Church of England, which he received in 1785. In 1787 he went to Madras, India, where he introduced into ...(100 of 278 words)

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