John Macdonell (judge)

British jurist (1846 – 1921)

John Macdonell

Sir John Macdonell KCB FBA (1 August 1846 - 17 March 1921) was a British jurist. He was King's Remembrancer (1912–1920) and invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.[1][2] Shaw of Dunfermline gives a prefatory biography in Historical Trials.[3]

John Macdonnell married writer and journalist Agnes Harrison in 1873.[4]

## Selected publications[edit]

* A Survey of Political Economy. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. 1871. Retrieved 27 February 2019 - via Internet Archive.[5]
* The Land Question; with particular reference to England and Scotland. London: Macmillan. 1873 - via HathiTrust.
* The Law of Master and Servant, 1883
* Macdonell, John; Manson, Edward William Donoghue, eds. (1913). Great Jurists of the World. London: John Murray. Retrieved 10 February 2019 - via Internet Archive.; 1914 edition, Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
* Law and Eugenics, 1916
* Historical Trials OUP, 1927; republished in 1931, 1933, 1936 as #23 in Thinker's Library

## References[edit]

1. ^ Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin. The Principles of Natural Taxation. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & co., 1917. Page 23.
2. ^ "MACDONELL, Sir John". Who's Who. Vol. 59\. 1907. p. 1117.
3. ^ Macdonell, John (1922). Lee, Robert Warden (ed.). Historical Trials; with a Preface by the Right Hon. Lord Shaw of Dunfermline (1st ed.). Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. pp. vii–ix. Retrieved 10 February 2019 - via Internet Archive.
4. ^ "Death of Lady Macdonell". The Times. No. 43865\. 21 January 1925. p. 16.
5. ^ "Review of A Survey of Political Economy by John Macdonell and The Theory of Political Economy by Prof. Stanley Jevons". The Athenaeum (2297): 589–590. 4 November 1871.

## External links[edit]

* Works by or about John Macdonell at Wikisource
* Sir John Macdonell, National Portrait Gallery, London
* Works by or about John Macdonell at Internet Archive

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Preceded by

James Robert Mellor

|  King's Remembrancer
1912–1920  | Succeeded by

Sir Thomas Chitty, 1st Baronet

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