《宋史·列传·卷一百二十一》
授任范宗尹为通议大夫、守尚书右仆射、同中书门下平章事兼御营使，当时年仅三十岁。近世的宰相，没有比宗尹年纪更小的。当初，范宗尹参加廷试，详定官李邦彦特别奏请皇上把宗尹放到乙科，宗尹很感激他，赠李邦彦观文殿大学士。
侍郎季陵希宗尹意，乞诏宰执于罪累中选真材实能，量付以事。沈与求劾陵，因及宗尹，宗尹求去。上为罢与求，宗尹乃复视事。初，宗尹廷对，详定官李邦彦特取旨置宗尹乙科，宗尹德之，赠邦彦观文殿大学士。
Commissioned Fan Zongyin as the Assistant Minister of Defense, the Right Secretary of the Executive Assembly, the Co-director of the Department of Government Affairs in charge of Appointments, as well as the Leader of the Imperial Army. He was only 30 at the time. No prime minister after him had ever been appointed at such a young age. Earlier, Fan Zongyin took the imperial examination. Li Bangyan, the officer in charge of the exam results, specially submitted a memo to the emperor to place Zongyin in the second class. Zongyin was grateful. Later, he made Li Bangyan the Master of the Hall of Literary Studies.