>From The Star ( Saint Peter Port, England ), Thursday, September 12, 1895; pg. [ 1 ] ; Issue 110. DEATH OF THE FIRST ENGINE DRIVER. At the age of eighty-four has died Joseph BELL , who was the first engine-driver in the world, and whose first engine was that famous Rocket, the parent of the mighty monsters of these days. BELL was for twenty-three years the driver of the South-Eastern Dover mail, and for seventeen years was in the employ of the District Railway Company. Three weeks ago he fractured his hip by falling through the unprotected trap of a public-house at Fulham, and never recovered from the accident. His death took place on Saturday at the Queen's Jubilee Hospital.