Sydney Pyman Bell
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| Birth name | Sydney Pyman Bell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 19 December 1875 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Newcastle upon Tyne, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 23 November 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Corbridge, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Uppingham School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | King's College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sydney Pyman Bell (19 December 1875 – 23 December 1944)[1] was an English rugby union halfback and solicitor. Bell played club rugby for Cambridge University and Northern and played international rugby for the British Isles XV in their 1896 tour of South Africa.
Bell was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1875 to Thomas Bell and Mary Ann Moore and was educated at Uppingham School before graduating to King's College, Cambridge in 1894.[2] He received his BA in 1894 and in 1901 he was admitted as a solicitor. He received the MA from King's College in February the following year.[3] Although practicing as a solicitor, Bell eventually became the Assistant District Manager of Martins Bank for the North Eastern District, before retiring in 1922. He married Constance Jane Laing in 1907 and had two daughters.