Name

Sir James Gell

Biography

Attorney General of the Isle of Man. Writing in 1882, he drew the constitutional parallel explicitly: 'In the previous year, the Parliament had asserted their right to tax the American colonists against their consent... no greater, and probably a lesser, right existed in the Parliament to tax the people of the Isle of Man.' In 1901, writing from Castletown, he argued that the proper title should still be 'King of Man' or 'Queen of Man' — the Stanleys had surrendered a Kingdom, 'the Kingly title of which having been by the voluntary act of a Predecessor changed for the lesser title — but a title merely — the substance surrendered was a Kingdom.'

Active Period

fl. 1880s–1901

Place

Castletown

Isle of Man

Period

Crown Administration

Role / Office

Attorney General

Constitutional Lawyer

Book Chapter

Chapter 3

Chapter 13