Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a town crier.

1786		Saunders’s News Letter 17 July 4/4: It is lawful for any Person to seize such Carriage or Sedan [and] dlivere the same to any Beadle or Bellower of any Parish within the said City.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1844		Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 7 Sept. 4/6: Stan Montgomery apostrophised our bellringer [...] thus: ‘Hail Boanerges [...] thou bellower august!’.
1860		Herts. Guardian 7 Feb. 3/3: You would send for bellower ot Sturgeon? Heaven forbid!
1906		Manchester Courier 28 Aug. 10/1: He is no periwig-pated bellower prone to ‘saw the air’.