page_title: Helensburgh
section_title: Helensburgh's three most famous residents
hierarchical_section_title: Helensburgh / Notable people / Helensburgh's three most famous residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Portrait of Henry Bell. Before 1830, artist unknown. In the public domain. Henry Bell (April 7, 1767 – March 14, 1830) was a Scottish engineer who is famed for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe. Source [1]
context_page_description: Helensburgh is a town within the Helensburgh and Lomond Area of Argyll and Bute Council, Scotland. It also has its own Community Council. Until local government reorganisation in 1996 Helensburgh was in Dumbarton District and hence also in Strathclyde Region; prior to 1975 it was a small burgh with its own town council within Dunbartonshire.
  In the Middle Ages it was within the Earldom of Lennox, an area sometimes referred to as the Lennox. It lies on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and the mouth of the Gareloch is close to the western boundary of the town.
context_section_description: By far the three most famous Helensburgh residents have been Henry Bell, John Logie Baird and Bonar Law.
caption: Henry Bell, portraitl
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