Mr Alexander James Montgomerie Bell (1845–3 July 1920)

British classical scholar and schoolmaster and amateur anthropologist, natural historian and archaeologist. Born in Edinburgh, he lived and worked in Oxford for most of his adult life. From 1894 Bell was an active member of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire becoming its President in 1898. Bell's collection of nearly 400 palaeolithic stone tools collected at sites mainly in Surrey and Oxfordshire such as Limpsfield, Wolvercote and Iflley, was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum after his death. The collection is the largest assemblage of prehistoric stone tools from the ARCHEOX study area. Bell founded the Oxford University Anthropology Society in 1909. He died in Oxford aged 74.