Martin Bell

Martin Bell
Bell at Hexham book festival in 2009
Member of Parliament
for Tatton
In office
1 May 1997 – 14 May 2001
Preceded byNeil Hamilton
Succeeded byGeorge Osborne
Personal details
Born (1938-08-31) 31 August 1938 (age 86)
Redisham, Suffolk, England
Political partyIndependent
Spouses
Helene Gordoun
(m. 1971; div. 1981)
Rebecca Sobel
(m. 1984; div. 1991)
Fiona Goddard
(m. 1998, divorced)
Merita Zhubi
(m. 2020)
Children2
Parent
Relatives
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
OccupationWar reporter

Martin Bell, OBE (born 31 August 1938) is a British UNICEF (UNICEF UK) Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician who became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 1997 to 2001. He is sometimes known as "the man in the white suit".[1]

  1. ^ Barnett, Antony (16 May 2004). "Sleaze, scandal and the man in the white suit". The Observer. Retrieved 18 July 2015.