Editing Martin Bell (section)

{{Short description|War correspondent and British MP}}
{{Other people}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Martin Bell
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
| image = Martin Bell in 2009.jpg
| imagesize = 165px
| caption = Bell at [[Hexham]] book festival in 2009
|office2 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)|Tatton]]
| majority2 =
| term_start2 = 1 May 1997
| term_end2 = 14 May 2001
| predecessor2 = [[Neil Hamilton (politician)|Neil Hamilton]]
| successor2 = [[George Osborne]]
| birthname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|08|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Redisham]], [[Suffolk]], England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = British
| spouse             = {{Plainlist |
* {{marriage|Helene Gordoun|1971|1981|reason=div.}}
* {{marriage|Rebecca Sobel|1984|1991|reason=div.}}
* {{marriage|Fiona Goddard |1998|reason=div.}}
* {{marriage|Merita Zhubi|2020|}}
}}
| children = 2
| father = [[Adrian Bell]]
| relatives = {{plainlist|
* [[Anthea Bell]] (sister)
* [[Oliver Kamm]] (nephew)
}}
| party = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| residence =
| alma_mater = [[King's College, Cambridge]]
| occupation = War reporter
| profession =
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| signature =
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}}
'''Martin Bell''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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 (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)|Tatton]] from 1997 to 2001. He is sometimes known as "the man in the white suit".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/may/16/uk.eu |title=Sleaze, scandal and the man in the white suit |first=Antony |last=Barnett |work=[[The Observer]] |date=16 May 2004 |access-date=18 July 2015}}</ref>