Person:Robert Bell (70)

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Sir Robert Bell
b.1539
d.1577
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  1. Dorothy Bell1552 - 1641
  2. Edmond Bell1562 - 1607
  3. Frances Bell1577 - 1657
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Name Sir Robert Bell
Gender Male
Birth? 1539
Marriage to Dorothy Beaupre
Death[1] 1577
Reference Number? Q7342001?


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Sir Robert Bell SL (died 1577) of Beaupré Hall, Norfolk, was a Speaker of the House of Commons (1572–1576), who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

He was legal counsel (1560) and recorder (1561) for King's Lynn, legal counsel for Great Yarmouth (1562–1563), and justice of the peace of the quorum for Norfolk (1564). He became a bencher in the Middle Temple in 1565 and was elected Autumn Reader that same year and Lent Reader in 1571.

In 1576 Bell was appointed Commissioner of Grain, Musters by 1576 and in 1577 he was knighted and appointed Serjeant-at-Law and Chief Baron of the Exchequer.[1]

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  1. ↑ Robert Bell (Speaker of the House of Commons), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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