Geoffrey Bell (cricketer)

Geoffrey Foxall Bell MC (16 April 1896 – 17 January 1984) was an English cricketer and educationalist.

He made his first County Championship appearance in 1914, though his cricketing career was summarily halted by the First World War.

After university, he became a schoolmaster and in 1927 became headmaster of Trent College where he was held in high regard by the boys and was seen as a forward-thinking man.

[4] In 1954 he decided to leave teaching and Highgate while he was still enjoying it, so he took an early pension and bought six acres in Haslemere, Surrey, where he planted an orchard and built a simple fruit store on it.

Bell's cousins, Edward, Sydney, Wallis and Frank Evershed, were all first-class cricketers for Derbyshire during the back end of the nineteenth century, while William Evershed also played first-class cricket in first half of the 20th century.