John Macdonell (judge)



Sir John Macdonell (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. Shaw of Dunfermline gives a prefatory biography in Historical Trials.

John Macdonnell married writer and journalist Agnes Harrison in 1873.

Selected publications

 * The Law of Master and Servant, 1883
 * State Trials (New Series), 1888 (vols. 1–3)
 * ; 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
 * Law and Eugenics, 1916
 * Historical Trials OUP, 1927; republished in 1931, 1933, 1936 as #23 in Thinker's Library