Clive Bell was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group.Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire, in 1881, the third of four children of William Heward Bell (1849–1927) and Hannah Taylor Cory (1850–1942). He had an elder brother (Cory), an elder sister (Lorna, Mrs Acton), and a younger sister (Dorothy, Mrs Hony).
His father was a civil engineer who built his fortune in the family coal mines in Wiltshire in England and Merthyr Tydfil in Wales – “a family which drew its wealth from Welsh mines and expended it on the destruction of wild animals”. They lived at Cleeve House, Seend, near Devizes, Wiltshire, which was adorned with Squire Bell’s many hunting trophies.
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