Чарльз Фредерик Моберли Белл: Жизнь и карьера британского журналиста и редактора

British journalist and editor

Charles Frederic Moberly Bell (2 April 1847, Alexandria – 5 April 1911, London) was a British journalist and newspaper editor. He was the managing director of The Times during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where his innovations included founding the forerunners of the Times Literary Supplement and the Times Educational Supplement and co sponsoring the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Charles Frederic Moberly Bell was born in Alexandria, the largest city on the Mediterranean at that point. His mother was Hester Louisa née David, and his father was a merchant. Both his parents died while Moberly Bell was still a child. He was sent to England to live with relatives and be educated there. He returned to his birthplace in 1865 and worked briefly for the same company as his father had, Peel & Co.

Moberly Bell then found freelance work with The Times. In 1875, he became its official correspondent in Egypt and achieved fame with his coverage of the Urabi Revolt of 1882. He founded The Egyptian Gazette in 1880. During the bombardment of Alexandria in July 1882, he was a guest alongside rival journalist Frederic Villiers on board HMS Condor when its commander , Lord Charles Beresford , attacked Fort Marabut. In 1890, Bell was invited by the owner of The Times, Arthur Fraser Walter, to help run the financially shaky paper, considered highly respected but stolid and boring. As managing director, Bell revitalized the title, greatly increasing its staff of foreign correspondents. In 1902, Bell created Literature, a forerunner of The Times Literary Supplement, and in 1910, followed that supplement or spin off with The Times Educational Supplement. In 1908, Bell helped to engineer its sale to Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe. Bell remained with the paper until his death in 1911.

. According to Herman Kogan, Bell's single most notable accomplishment was his deal with American Horace Everett Hooper to reprint and sell the Encyclopædia Britannica under the sponsorship of The Times.

In 1875 Moberly Bell married Ethel Chataway; the couple had two sons and four daughters. Moberly Bell's biography was written by his daughter Enid, the founding headmistress of Lady Margaret School. The Life and Letters of C. F. Moberly Bell was published in 1927, 16 years after his death.