Thomas L. Angell (1837–1923) was an American Free Will Baptist pastor, academic, leader of the Lapham Institute, and early professor at Bates College in Maine.

In 1862 during the Civil War, Angell graduated from Brown and enlisted in the Rhode Island militia as aide de camp for General Tourtellotte.

Upon his graduation, Angell taught school briefly in Greenville before attending Hartford Seminary.

[3][4] Angell was married Emily Brown until her death in 1902 and had one daughter, Mary Frances Lincoln, who graduated from Bates in 1890.

[5] Several of Angell's early diaries and other letters from his time in Rhode Island and Maine are held in the Bates College Special Collections Library.