Canon Edward Sell (24 January 1839 – 15 February 1932) was an Anglican orientalist, writer, and missionary in India.
He was educated at the Church Missionary College in Islington, London, completing his studies in 1862.
In 1874 Sell was appointed as a fellow of Madras University and he received a Bachelor of Divinity from Lambeth in 1881.
In 1865 Sell became the principal of the Harris High School for Muslims in Madras in which capacity he continued until 1881.
[2] He officially retired from the CMS in 1923, but continued to live in India, involving himself in scholarship and ministry.