Francis Bell (New Zealand politician)
Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell GCMG KC was the first New Zealandborn Prime Minister of New Zealand. Bell is one three New Zealand Prime Ministers of Jewish extraction, the others being Julius Vogel and current Prime Minister John Key.
He was born in Nelson, the eldest son of Sir Dillon Bell. His mother was Margaret Hort . Arthur Bell was a younger brother. He attended Auckland Grammar School and Otago Boys High School. At Otago Boys he was the Dux. After finishing high school, he travelled to England where he attended St Johns College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1873. On returning to New Zealand, he began practising law in Wellington, being involved in Bell, Gully, MacKenzie and Evans.
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