John Macdonell (judge)
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Sir John Macdonell {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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.Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin. The Principles of Natural Taxation. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & co., 1917. [https://archive.org/details/principlesnatur01fillgoog Page 23].{{cite magazine|title=MACDONELL, Sir John|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=1117|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1117}} Shaw of Dunfermline gives a prefatory biography in Historical Trials.{{cite book |last=Macdonell |first=John |editor= Lee, Robert Warden |title=Historical Trials; with a Preface by the Right Hon. Lord Shaw of Dunfermline |place= Oxford |publisher=At the Clarendon Press |edition= 1st |year=1922 |pages=vii-ix |url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31532/page/n11 |access-date=10 February 2019 |via= Internet Archive}}
John Macdonnell married writer and journalist Agnes Harrison in 1873.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|date=21 January 1925|title=Death of Lady Macdonell|issue=43865|page=16}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |title= A Survey of Political Economy |year= 1871 |url= https://archive.org/details/asurveypolitica01macdgoog |place= Edinburgh |publisher= Edmonston and Douglas |via= Internet Archive |access-date= 27 February 2019}}{{cite journal|title=Review of A Survey of Political Economy by John Macdonell and The Theory of Political Economy by Prof. Stanley Jevons|journal=The Athenaeum|date=4 November 1871|issue= 2297|pages=589–590|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858029267923;view=1up;seq=603}}
- {{cite book |url= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007665282 |title=The Land Question; with particular reference to England and Scotland |year= 1873 |place= London |publisher= Macmillan |via= HathiTrust}}
- The Law of Master and Servant, 1883
- State Trials (New Series), 1888 (vols. 1–3)
- {{cite book |editor1= Macdonell, John |editor2= Manson, Edward William Donoghue |title= Great Jurists of the World |place= London |publisher= John Murray |year= 1913 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13326 |access-date= 10 February 2019 |via= Internet Archive}}; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001624767 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
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External links
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- [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw93790/Sir-John-Macdonell?LinkID=mp80208&search=sas&sText=John&role=sit&rNo=0 Sir John Macdonell, National Portrait Gallery, London]
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