Philip Bell, British colonial governor (died 1678)

Philip Bell (colonial administrator)

Governor of Bermuda from 1626 to 1629

Philip Bell was Governor of Bermuda from 1626 to 1629, of the Providence Island colony from 1629 to 1636, and of Barbados from 1640 to 1650 during the English Civil War. During his terms of office in Providence and Barbados, the colonies moved from using indentured English…