Philip Gell (other)
Philip Gell may refer to: * Sir Philip Gell, 3rd Baronet (1651–1719), lead-mining magnate and Member of Parliament for Derbyshire * Philip Eyre Gell (1723–1795), probable builder of the Via Gellia, of the Gell baronets * Philip Gell (1775–1842), last of the mining family, High Sheriff of Derbyshire * Philip Lyttelton Gell (1852–1926), British editor for Oxford University Press * Philip George Houthem Gell Philip George Houthem Gell (20 October 1914 – 3 May 2001) was a British immunologist working in postwar Britain. Together with Robin Coombs, he developed the Gell–Coombs classification of hypersensitivity. He was elected Fellow of the Royal ...

Sir Philip Gell, 3rd Baronet
Sir Philip Gell, 3rd Baronet (6 July 1651 – 15 July 1719) of Hopton Hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire was a lead-mining magnate and an English politician. Philip Gell was the son of Katherine Packer (daughter of John Packer of Denington Castle, Berkshire) and Sir John Gell, 2nd Baronet of Hopton, Derbyshire. The family's fortune was founded on the local lead industry, through their ownership of the lead tithes in the mines of Bakewell, Hope and Tideswell. Gell was working as a trading agent in Smyrna in Turkey in 1674 when his elder brother died. On his journey home to England, he was captured by privateers and marched across the desert to Tripoli. He was freed by the English fleet of Sir John Narborough. In 1678 Phillip married Elizabeth Fagge, of the wealthy Sussex Fagge family and in 1681 was elected Member of Parliament for Steyning in Sussex. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1689, succeeding his father as MP for Derbyshire in 1689 during the Co ...
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Philip Eyre Gell
Philip Eyre Gell (1723–1795) of Hopton Hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire, was a wealthy lead-mining aristocrat. Eyre Gell was the son of Isabella, co-heir to the Jessop family of Broom Hall, Sheffield, and John Eyre, and grandson of Catherine Gell of Hopton Hall. Philip's father assumed the surname Gell after inheriting the Gell family fortune in 1732, via his mother Catherine Gell, daughter of Sir John Gell, 2nd Baronet, and sister of 3rd baronet, Sir Philip Gell who had died in 1719 without a direct heir. When John Eyre died in 1739, the Hopton Hall estate, and Gell name, passed to son Philip Eyre, as eldest of seven children, which also included brother Admiral John Gell. The family's fortune was founded on the local lead industry, through ownership of the lead tithes in the mines of Bakewell, Hope and Tideswell. Gell is known for building the road between his lead-mining interests at Hopton and a new smelter at Cromford, naming the route Via Gellia as a nod to his fam ...
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Philip Gell (1775–1842)
Philip Gell (1775–1842) was a British Whig politician.The House of Commons, 1790-1820, Volume 1
R. G. Thorne, p.16, accessed September 2010 Gell was a quiet M.P. who bought his constituency for £4,000. He was the

High Sheriff of Derbyshire

in 1822.

Biography

Gell was the son of Philip Eyre Gell of

Hopton Hall

. He was educated at

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Philip Lyttelton Gell
Philip Lyttelton Gell (1852–1926) was a British editor for Oxford University Press between 1884 and 1896 and President of the British South Africa Company between 1920–1923. Lyttelton Gell was a friend of Alfred Lord Milner, and corresponded frequently with Henry Birchenough and other board members of the British South Africa Company. The Derbyshire record office contains correspondence relating to Gell's involvement with the BSAC as Director (1899–1917, 1923–1925), Chairman (1917–1920) and President (1920–1923). He was Chairman of Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, from 1884 to 1896. Through his mother, he was the grandson of Admiral John Franklin. He supported the co-operative movement and the Liberal Unionist Party, and was a literary executor of Benjamin Jowett Benjamin Jowett (, modern variant ; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was an English tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian, an Anglican cleric, and a translator of Plato ...
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