A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bell, Beaupré

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 2 July, 1722.

Only son of Beaupré Bell, of Beaupré Hall, Oatwell [or Outwell], Norfolk. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in 1725. From the first he took up the study of antiquities, and especially of coins, and commenced a work on the coins of the Roman Emperors, which, however, was never finished. He became a member of the Spalding Club and contributed many papers to its journal, also to Archæologia. He assisted Blomefield in his History of Norfolk, and Hearne in his antiquarian works, and Cole in his edition of Dugdale's Imbanking. He died on his way to Bath, Aug. 1745, leaving his books, medals, and manuscripts to his college at Cambridge.