Sir Robert Bell Profile

    • Sir Robert Bell
    • ID: I1010
    Male
    Name Robert Bell [S186]  
    Married Mary Chester (-)
    Married Elizabeth Inkpenn (-)
    Married Dorothy Beaupré (-1603)
    MarriageDorothy Beaupré (-1603) [S186] Oct 15, 1559 
    Occupation Speaker of the House of Commons [S186] from 1572 to 1576 
    DeathLeominster, Herefordshire, England [S186] 1577 
    gaol fever
    while presiding as judge, at the Oxford assizes, he became exposed to prisoners of foul condition during the trial of a book seller who had slandered the Queen, and this stench is thought to have caused a pestilent vapour and Bell, along with an estimated 300 others, caught gaol fever
    Title Knight [S186] Jan 21, 1577 
    Occupation Serjeant-at-Law and Chief Baron of the Exchequer [S186] Jan 24, 1577 
  • Last Modified: May 11, 2013
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