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'Robert Bell's Printing Career
'Robert Bell (1835-1876) departed Liverpool on Sunday 15 June 1862 in the Great Britain, which crossed the equator seventeen days out, during which voyage "the ship ran a record 380 knots in twenty-four hours" and arrived in Hobson's Bay on 14 August 1862 carrying the largest number of passengers (600) to be brought out "in one vessel for several years." Bell was noticed in the Melbourne press in March 1873 as a member of the Royal Society of Victoria, where he delivered a paper on the invention of his Eclectic Press, which, he described to members of the society at the first meeting of the year and which was entered in the exhibition catalogue as "No. 945." His family (wife Sarah, and sons Harcourt, aged four, and Robert, aged one) followed him out a year later, leaving Liverpool in the Southern Ocean, in the middle of May 1863 as unassisted passengers in company with 50 married couples and their children sponsored by the newly-formed Victoria Emigrants' Assistance Society.' (Introduction)
'Robert Bell (1835-1876) departed Liverpool on Sunday 15 June 1862 in the Great Britain, which crossed the equator seventeen days out, during which voyage "the ship ran a record 380 knots in twenty-four hours" and arrived in Hobson's Bay on 14 August 1862 carrying the largest number of passengers (600) to be brought out "in one vessel for several years." Bell was noticed in the Melbourne press in March 1873 as a member of the Royal Society of Victoria, where he delivered a paper on the invention of his Eclectic Press, which, he described to members of the society at the first meeting of the year and which was entered in the exhibition catalogue as "No. 945." His family (wife Sarah, and sons Harcourt, aged four, and Robert, aged one) followed him out a year later, leaving Liverpool in the Southern Ocean, in the middle of May 1863 as unassisted passengers in company with 50 married couples and their children sponsored by the newly-formed Victoria Emigrants' Assistance Society.' (Introduction)
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