Bob Bell (politician)

Robert Linfield Bell (23 August 1929 – 16 November 2011) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

He graduated from Lincoln College in 1951 with a diploma in valuation and farm management.

[1] He served in the Territorials for six years, with the rank of lieutenant, and was appointed as a justice of the peace in 1987.

[3] Bell joined the National Party in 1958, and was chair of the Kaiti branch from 1962 to 1978.

[5] Bell was part of the small group of National MPs that stopped Robert Muldoon driving home drunk on the night that he had called the 1984 snap election.