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
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* ''The Law of Master and Servant'', 1883
* 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