Philip James Macdonell
Sir Phillip James Macdonell was the 25th Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1930 succeeding Stanley Fisher and was Chief Justice until 1936. He was succeeded by Sidney Abrahams.
Career
Macdonell was a scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford, was Bacon Scholar at Gray's Inn in 1896, and was called to the Bar there in January 1900.He was
- war correspondent for "The Times", 1900–1901;
- Judge of the High Court, Northern Rhodesia, 1918–1927;
- President of the West Indian Court of Appeal, Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago 1927–30
- Chief Justice of Ceylon, 1930–36; Privy Councillor, 1939
- Knighted, 1925;
- Retired, 1936.
- President of the Balovale Commission.