Sir Robert Bell (c. 1589 – 1639) was an English landowner and politician who sat in England's

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in 1626. Bell was the son of Sir Edmund Bell of

Beaupré Hall Beaupré Hall was a large 16th-century house mainly of brick, which was built by the Beaupre (surname), Beaupres in Outwell, Norfolk, England and enlarged by their successors the Robert Bell (Speaker of the House of Commons), Bells. Destruction o ...

, Outwell, Norfolk. He matriculated from

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at Easter 1606, and was knighted in 1611. In 1626, he was elected Member of Parliament for

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

. Bell died at the age of about 50 and was buried at Outwell on 31 October 1639.

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1580s births 1639 deaths 17th-century English landowners English MPs 1626 Alumni of King's College, Cambridge People from Outwell Members of the Parliament of England for Norfolk {{1626-England-MP-stub