| Robert A. Bell | |
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| Born | 1953 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Occupation | writer, librarian |
| Nationality | Northern Irish |
| Alma mater | Graduated from Oldham College in 1979 Educated at Wallace High School (Northern Ireland), Lisburn |
| Subjects | Genealogists, Historian |
| Notable work(s) | The Book of Ulster Surnames |
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Robert A. Bell is a genealogist on Irish Scots surnames and the author of The Book of Ulster Surnames. His short stories have been published in the Belfast Telegraph, Passage 1 (1987) and The Blackstaff Book of Short Stories (1988), and he has also contributed articles to the Belfast Review. He formally worked in the Linen Hall Library, in Belfast, where he was supervisor of the Northern Ireland Political Collection.[1] In 1979, he returned from Oldham to Belfast to read Modern History at Queen’s University.