Joshua Thomas Bell

Joshua Thomas Bell was an Australian barrister and politician. He was the eldest son of Sir Joshua Peter Bell, and was born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1863.

Joshua was educated at Brisbane Grammar School & Trinity Hall, Cambridge, & was admitted to the English bar. In 1889 he returned to Australia, & a year later became private secretary to Sir Samuel Griffith. 

In 1893 Joshua was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the electoral district of Dalby in which his family home, Jimbour Homestead, was located. He was to hold this seat for the rest of his life.  In 1901, he unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Darling Downs in Australia's first federal by-election, but he was defeated by Littleton Ernest Groom, the son of the original member.

Joshua Thomas Bell died at "Rakeevan", his Graceville residence on 10 March 1911 after a long illness. He was accorded a state funeral, which proceeded from St. John's Anglican Cathedral to the Toowong Cemetery, where he was buried next to his father.