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Joshua Thomas Bell was educated at the Brisbane Grammar School and went to England in 1881 and entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He remained there during the next four years except for a brief visit to Queensland on the death of his father in December, 1881.
On leaving the University he entered the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in due course.
After his return to Queensland in 1889, he became Private Secretary to Sir Samuel Griffith in 1890 and later, in 1893, followed the political footsteps of his father, being elected Member for Dalby. He represented Dalby for eighteen years and was many times returned unopposed.
He unsuccessfully opposed Lyttleton Groom for the Federal seat of Darling Downs in 1902.
In 1903 he married Mrs. Sydney Jones, a daughter of the Hon. John. Ferguson. They had two children - a son and a daughter.
During his term as Dalby's political representative and up to the time of his death in March, 1911, J. T. Bell always used Jimbour as his headquarters and spent many weekends there when Parliament was not sitting. He did not, however, make Jimbour his home.
His administrative ability was soon recognised and he was appointed Minister for Lands in the Morgan Government in 1903 and again in the Kidston Government in 1907.
J. T. Bell had a well defined plan for the settlement of the unoccupied lands in the Dalby district and designed a network of railway lines to serve them.
Between 1908 and 1914 his railway scheme came into operation. The first branch line ran to Bell, the second to Tara and the third to Jandowae. He was elected as Speaker of the Queensland Parliament in 1910, a position he held at the time of his death. |
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