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1 Robert Bell, Irish man of letters

Robert Bell ( January 16, 1800 - April 12, 1867) was an Irish man of letters.

Bell was born at Cork, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was one of the founders of the Dublin Historical Society . In 1828 he settled in London, where he edited a weekly paper, the Atlas, and until 1841 worked as a journalist.

His most important work is his annotated edition of the English Poets (24 vols., 1854-1857; new ed., 29 vols., 1866), the works of each poet being prefaced by a memoir. For Lardner's, Cabinet Cyclopaedia he wrote: History of Russia (3 vols., 1836-1838); Lives of English Poets (2 vols., 1839); a continuation, with W Wallace, of Sir James Mackintosh's History of England (vols. iv.-x., 1830-1840); and the fifth volume (1840) of the Lives of the British Admirals, begun by Robert Southey. He was a director of the Royal Literary Fund , and well known for his open-hearted generosity to fellow men of letters.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

2 Robert Bell, Speaker of the House of Commons

Sir Robert Bell (d. 1577) was Speaker of the British House of CommonsIn the British House of Commons the Speaker of the House of Commons controls the day to day running of the house. It is he (or she) that decides who may speak and has the powers to discipline members who break the procedures of the house. Election The Spe and a judge.

Educated at Cambridge, of the Middle TempleThe Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England. The others are Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. It is an independent enclave physically within the City of London, but not governed by the. Bell's father John BellJohn Bell is a common name. It may refer to: John Stewart Bell (physicist) John Bell (Bishop of Worcester) John Bell (Tennessee politician) John Bell (actor). LL.D was active in the affairs of the Henrician Reformation, and was employed by Henry VIII in divers ways. No doubt it was his father's influence which afforded him an unparalleled knowledge of the law for which he was famed. Robert Bell's career was launched by a fortunate third marriage to a baroness and coheir, Dorothy Beaupre, 15 Oct. 1559. This afforded him a large estate in Outwell, NorfolkFor alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation Norfolk (pronounced 'norfuck') is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and with Suff, along with the local offices and status that came with it. As MP for King's LynnKing's Lynn is a medium-sized town in Norfolk, England on the River Great Ouse. It is part of the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district. In the 12th century, it was part of the manor of the Bishop of Norwich. When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1 during the 1563 and 1571 Parliaments, Bell was considered a radical and was noted by Lord Burghley as one of the two leading trouble makers in Parliament. Perhaps it was Bell's quality of being outspoken which revealed his niche, as he became Speaker in 1572. During his stint as Speaker, he presided over some of the more dynamic issues of the Elizabethan period, notably, a session concerned with the question of Mary Queen of Scots. His efforts helped establish the foundation for precidents which became common place in the House during the following century. In 1577, he was promoted to Serjeant-at-Law, made a judge, and was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. A "sage and grave man," Bell was for the most part conservative with the affairs of the Exchequer. However, his past radicalism was conveyed and evidenced at the rising sun of Exploration and dawn of the colonization of the New world. Apparently Robert's son Edmund Bell shared his father's zeal and invested heavily in privateering. Unfortunately, Robert Bell's success was short lived. While residing as judge at the Oxford assizes, afterward deemed the ( Black Assizes ), he was exposed to prisoners of foul condition, and caught gaol fever, and soon afterward died 25 July, 1577 in Worcester.

Sources:

• The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1558-1603, P.W.Hasler, HMSO 1981.
• Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 1887.
• Newgate, Appendix VIII.