Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell (16 April 1884–2 May 1963), was a British peer, Liberal politician, poet, author and newspaper editor.

Gorell was the second son of John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell, President of the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. He succeeded as third Baron Gorell in 1917 after his elder brother was killed in the First World War and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords. In July 1921 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Air in the coalition government of David Lloyd George, an office he held until the government fell in October 1922. He was later Editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1933 to 1939. He was co-President of the Detection Club with Agatha Christie from 1956 to 1963.

Lord Gorell married Maud Elizabeth Furse Radcliffe (1886-1954), eldest daughter of Alexander Nelson Radcliffe and Isabel Grace Henderson, in 1922. He died in May 1963, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes.

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Gorell wrote 14 works of fiction, mainly detective stories, and several collections of poetry, published by John Murray.

• In the Night (1917)
• DEQ (1922)
• Venturers All (1927)
• The Devouring Fire (1928)
• He Who Fights (1928)
• Devil's Drum (1929)
• Red Lilac (1935)
• Wild Thyme and other stories (1941)
• Murder at Mavering (1943)
• Luck and other new stories (1948)
• Let Not Thy Left Hand (1949)
• Earl's End (1951)
• Where There's a Head (1952)
• Murder at Manor House (1954)

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• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page

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