Julian Bell

Abstract

Julian Heward Bell was born in 1908, son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, grandson of Leslie Stephen, nephew of Virginia Woolf, first cousin once removed of ‘J. K. S.’² and H. A. L. Fisher. As he wrote himself in a poem ‘Autobiography’:

I stay myself—the product made

By several hundred English years,

Of harried labourers underpaid,

Of Venns who plied the parson’s trade,

Of regicides, of Clapham sects,

Of high Victorian intellects,

Leslie, Fitzjames.

From King’s College: Annual Report, 13 November 1937.