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Bell, John (traveller)

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Bell, John (1691-1780)

Scottish traveller. In 1714 he went to St Petersburg, Russia, where he joined an embassy to Persia (Iran), and was later appointed to Peking. In 1737 he undertook another mission for Russia to Constantinople, Turkey. His Travels were published in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1763.

He returned to Moscow from Peking in 1722, and to Scotland in 1725. After completing his mission in Constantinople he settled there as a merchant. He married in 1746, and retired to Antermony.
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