Person Gell; Philip Lyttelton (1852-1926); company director and businessman DS/UK/3100 Gell Philip Lyttelton 1852-1926 company director and businessman Male Born in London, 20 Apr 1852; died at Haven Hill, Kingswear, Devon, 29 May 1926

Philip Lyttelton Gell was the son of the Reverend John Philip Gell and his wife Eleanor Franklin, daughter of the polar explorer, Sir John Franklin. He grew up in London and studied at King's College, London, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he made several influential contacts which would greatly aid his career as a businessman. Having initially started training for the bar, he moved into the publishing business, first with Cassell and Co., then at the Clarendon Press, with whom he was British editor for Oxford University Press, 1884-1896. He left publishing and went into the field of South Africna business. He became a company director of the British South Africa Company and became its President, 1920-1923. When he resigned, he became interested in colonial industrial undertakings in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Australia. He was the first chairman of Toynbee Hall, the Universities' Settlement in the East End of London providing charitable services to the poor of the area. He also served as literary executor for Benjamin Howett, Master of Balliol College. In 1889 he married Edith May Brodrick, daughter of the 8th Viscount Midleton. The couple lived in Oxford until 1904, when Philip let Hopton Hall from its owner, Brigadier-General Harry Chandos-Pole-Gell. The Chandos-Pole-Gell family later sold the estate and Philip Lyttelton Gell purchased it in 1920. Yes International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 staff 03/01/2019 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 04/09/2025 2b15625d-0971-4eb7-89c2-6f1ace4ab2dd