About Philip Gell
Lived 1775 – 1842 (aged 66–67). Philip Gell was a British politician.
Philip Gell (1775–1842) was a British Whig politician. Gell was a quiet MP who bought his constituency. He was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1822. He was born at Hopton Hall in Hopton, Derbyshire.
Biography Gell was the son of Philip Eyre Gell and Dorothy of Hopton Hall. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School. In 1797 he married Georgiana Nicholas.
Gell was offered a position as Member of Parliament for Malmesbury which he bought for £4,000. Gell died in 1842 and left his estate to his only living child, Isabella, the wife of William Pole Thornhill.
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British politician (1775-1842)
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