Julian Heward Bell (February 4, 1908 – July 18, 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Arthur Clive Howard Bell (September 16, 1881 – September 18, 1964) was an English critic, associated with the Bloomsbury group. ... Vanessa Bell (May 28, 1879 - April 7, 1961), was an English painter and interior designer and a member of the Bloomsbury group. ... Quentin Bell (1910 – December 16, 1996) was an English art historian. ...

He was brought up mainly at Charleston, Sussex. He was educated at Leighton Park and King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Apostles. He was a friend of some of the Cambridge Five, and sometimes claimed as Anthony Blunt's lover. After graduating he worked towards a college fellowship, without success. Artists from the Bloomsbury Group lived here. ... Full name The Kings College of Our Lady and St Nicholas Motto Veritas Et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College(s) New College Acting Provost Dr Tess Adkins Location Kings Parade Undergraduates 397 Postgraduates 239 Homepage Boatclub The Gatehouse, built... Trinity College Great Court. ... The Cambridge Five (also sometimes known as the Cambridge Four) was a ring of British spies who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s. ... Anthony Frederick Blunt (September 26, 1907 – March 26, 1983) was an English art historian and the Fourth Man of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ...

In 1935 he went to China, to a position teaching English at Wuhan University. He wrote letters describing his relationship with a lover, K.; the identity of this woman became a sensitive issue when the Chinese-British novelist Hong Ying wrote a fictionalised account, K: The Art of Love. After a 2002 ruling by a Chinese court that the book was 'defamation of the dead', the author rewrote the book, which was published in 2003 under the title The English Lover. Wuhan University (WHU) (Simplified Chinese: 武汉大学; Traditional Chinese: 武漢大學; Pinyin: Wǔhàn Dàxué; colloquially 武大, Pinyin: Wǔdà) is a key university directly under the administration of the Education Ministry of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Hong Ying (虹影) (born September 21, 1962 in Chongqing, Sichuan province), is a modern Chinese author. ...

In 1937 he took part in the Spanish Civil War, as an ambulance driver on the Republican side. He was killed in the battle at Brunete. The Spanish Civil War (July 1936–April 1939) was a conflict in which the incumbent Second Spanish Republic and political left-wing groups fought against a right-wing nationalist insurrection led by General Francisco Franco, who eventually succeeded in ousting the Republican government and establishing a dictatorship. ... An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people. ...

Works

• Winter Movement (1930) poems
• We Did Not Fight: 1914-18 Experiences of War Resisters. (1935) editor
• Work for the Winter (1936) poems
• Essays, Poems and Letters (1938) edited by Quentin Bell

Reference

• Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China (2003) Patricia Laurence