Sir Robert Bell (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 Beaupres in Outwell, Norfolk, England and enlarged by their successors the Bells. Like many of Britain's country houses it was demolished in the mid-20th cent ...

, Outwell, Norfolk. He matriculated from

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at Easter 1606, and was knighted in 1611. In 1626, he was elected

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for

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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Robert 1589 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