Gertrude bell biography
Early Life, Education, & First Love. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born 14 July 1868 at Country Durham, Washington, England.Her grandfather was the industrialist and politician Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell who established the family fortune, and her father was Sir Hugh Bell (l. 1844-1931), an intellectual and liberal-minded industrialist who mandated fair wages and paid sick days for his workers.