1. Joseph Bell FRCSE was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century.
12 Facts About Joseph Bell
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Joseph Bell is best known as an inspiration for the literary character, Sherlock Holmes.
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Joseph Bell studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and received an MD in 1859 presenting the thesis "Epithelial cancer: its pathology and treatment".
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Joseph Bell served as personal surgeon to Queen Victoria whenever she visited Scotland.
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Joseph Bell was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a justice of the peace, and a deputy lieutenant.
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In 1867 Joseph Bell was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1897.
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Joseph Bell was elected president of the RCSEd in 1887.
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Joseph Bell wrote the book Manual of the Operations of Surgery, published in 1866.
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In 1883, Joseph Bell bought 2 Melville Crescent, a large townhouse, previously the home of the engineer John Miller of Leithen.
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Joseph Bell was buried at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh alongside his wife Edith Katherine Erskine Murray and their son Benjamin, and next to his parents' and brother's plots.
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Joseph Bell gave his analysis of the Ripper murders to Scotland Yard.
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In episode 14 of the show's eighth and final season, House briefly comes to believe that his biological father is a man named Thomas Joseph Bell, played by prominent Scottish actor Billy Connolly.