| Honorific-Prefix: | Sir |
| Philip James Macdonell | |
| Office: | 25th Chief Justice of Ceylon |
| Term Start: | 3 October 1931 |
| Term End: | 1936 |
| Predecessor: | Stanley Fisher |
| Successor: | Sidney Abrahams |
| Birth Date: | 10 January 1873 |
Sir Phillip James Macdonell (10 January 1873 – 15 December 1940) 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.[1]
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.[2]
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He died in Southport in 1940 and was buried in Girthon Old Churchyard, Kirkcudbrightshire.[5] [6] He had married Alexandrina Sutherland Campbell.