Robert Charles Bell (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RC Bell was the author of several books on board games, most importantly Board and Table Games 1 & 2 (reprinted as Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations). He was instrumental in popularizing traditional games. and is acknowledged as one of 11 "principal sources" in David Parlett's Oxford History of Board Games. He was born 1917 in Sudbury, Ontario; came to England in 1928; and was educated at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire and St Bartholomew's Hospital by 1941. He became a consultant plastic surgeon. His first work on games was Board and Table Games (1960). He was on the editorial board of the British Journal of Plastic Surgery. He later produced many articles on coin collecting for World Coins. He died in 2002. As of 2007, much of his extensive collection of games and game paraphernalia resides at the University of Durham. Bell used the basic categories suggested by Murray with some alterations.