Robert "Kool" Bell

Robert Earl "Kool" Bell (born October 8, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the founding member of the jazz/R&B/soul/funk/disco band, Kool & the Gang.

Early life and career

Bell was born in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. Along with his brother, Ronald Bell, he began playing jazz, and in 1964 they formed a group named the "Jazziacs". They began playing at clubs in New York City under a series of different band names, before settling on the name "Kool & the Gang" in 1968. He is one of the co-writers of the song "Boardmeeting" from the 2007 album Timbaland Presents Shock Value.

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Robert Bell

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Robert Bell (writer)

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

Life

He was the son of an Irish magistrate. He was born at Cork on 16 January 1800. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he originated the Dublin Historical Society to supply the place of the old Historical Society which had been suppressed. He is said to have obtained early in life a government appointment in Dublin, and to have edited for a time the Patriot, a government organ. He is also described as one of the founders of and contributors to the Dublin Inquisitor, and as the author of two dramatic pieces, 'Double Disguises' and 'Comic Lectures.'

In 1828, he settled in London either before or after publishing a pamphlet on catholic emancipation. About this time, he was appointed editor of the Atlas, then one of the largest of London weekly journals, and he conducted it creditably and successfully for many years. In 1829, at a time when press prosecutions were rife, he was indicted for a libel on Lord Lyndhurst, a paragraph in the Atlas having stated that either he or his wife had trafficked in the ecclesiastical patronage vested in the lord chancellor. The indictment would have been withdrawn if Bell had consented to give up the name of his authority, but he refused. He defended himself. The verdict of the jury found him guilty of publishing a libel, but virtually acquitted him of any malicious intention. The attorney-general expressed great satisfaction with the verdict, and Bell seems to have escaped punishment.

Robert Bell (died 1639)

Sir Robert Bell (1589 – 1639) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626.

Bell was the son of Sir Edmund Bell, of Beaupré Hall, Outwell, Norfolk. He matriculated from King's College, Cambridge, at Easter 1606. He was knighted in 1611. In 1626, he was elected Member of Parliament for Norfolk.

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

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