Anthony Gell was a law reporter active in the reigns of Edward VI to Elizabeth I.
He studied at Clement's Inn in the early 1540s, and as a young student in London, he witnessed a sermon by the famous preacher Hugh Latimer.
[1] In 1545, he was appointed principal of Clement's Inn, and shortly afterwards was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.
[2] He wrote a series of law reports, one of which survives at the Library of Congress and another at the Derbyshire Record Office.
He died, unmarried and childless, on 29 June 1583 and was buried in St Mary's Church, Wirksworth, where his effigy may still be seen.