James Stowell Gell QC (20 April 1855 – 23 September 1919) was a Manx advocate who became High Bailiff of both Castletown and Douglas, Isle of Man.

[1][2] During an illness which affected his father during the 1890s, he acted as Attorney General, and in such capacity it fell on him to lead for the Crown in the prosecution of George Cooper on a charge of having murdered his wife at the Regent Hotel, Douglas.

[1][2] During the period following the death of Clerk of the Rolls, Thomas Kneen, and the appointment of Sir William Kyffin Taylor as special Judge of Appeal in the Isle of Man, Gell acted as a member of the Court of Staff of Government, and as such he sat during several cases of appeal from decisions of the Common Law Division of the High Court.

The marriage produced one son, James Bainton Stowell Gell, who was drafted overseas in August 1918 and killed in action on 9 October 1918, aged 19.

Said to have been a highly charitable person, together with his wife Gell worked to provide assistance to the poor members of the community.