in 1811, charles bell married marion shaw. using money from his wife's dowry, bell purchased a share of the great windmill street school of anatomy which had been founded by the anatomist william hunter. bell transferred his practice from his house to the windmill street school bell ended up teaching students and conducting his own research until 1824. in 1813–14, he was appointed as a member of the london college of surgeons and as a surgeon at the middlesex hospital.