Modern English biography

MICHELL, SIR FREDERICK THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Exeter 8 April 1788; entered navy 17 Sep. 1803; captain 22 Feb. 1830; R.A. 9 July 1855, V.A. 16 June 1862, retired admiral 2 April 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ North gate, Totnes 14 Jany. 1873. MICHELL, SIR JOHN (son of rev. John Michell of Huish, Somerset). _b._ 1781; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 March 1798, lieut.-col. 22 July 1830; commanded the R.A. in Canada 1831–36 and at Gibraltar 1844–48; col. commandant 14 June 1856 to death; general 2 June 1864; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ 76 Portland place, London 23 Aug. 1866. MICHELL, JOHN EDWARD (only son of the preceding). _b._ 16 Sep. 1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1846, lieut.-col. 2 Sep. 1870, colonel 17 April 1878 to death; brigadier general Bengal 31 March 1876 to 31 July 1876 and 9 March 1877 to 30 April 1880; C.B. 2 June 1869; M.G. 1 May 1880; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny. _d._ Bishop’s Down, Spa, Tunbridge Wells 7 March 1883. MICHELL, NICHOLAS (son of John Michell 1774–1868). _b._ Calenick near Truro 4 June 1807; ed. at Truro gr. sch.; employed in his father’s tin smelting works at Calenick; contributed to the Forget-me-not, the Keepsake and other annuals; author of The siege of Constantinople, with other poems 1831; An essay on woman 1833; The fatalist or the fortunes of Godolphin 3 vols. 1840; The traduced, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; Ruins of many lands 1849; Spirits of the past 1853; The poetry of creation 1856; The immortals, or glimpses of paradise 1870; a collected edition of his poems appeared in 1871. _d._ Tehidy terrace, Falmouth 6 April 1880. _bur._ St. Kea churchyard 12 April. _Biograph_, _i_ 46 (1879); _Men of the West_, _April 1877 pp._ 17–20, _portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp._ 352–4, 1281; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxviii_ 241, 501. MICHELL, RICHARD (3 son of Edward Michell). _b._ Bruton, Somerset 1805; ed. at Bruton gr. sch. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1868; a successful private tutor; fellow of Lincoln college 1830, bursar 1832, tutor 1834–48; the first prælector of logic at Oxford 1839–49; public orator of univ. of Oxf. 1849 to death; member of the new hebdomadal council 1854–72; R. of South Moreton, Berkshire 1856 to death; vice principal of Magdalen hall 1848 and principal 5 Feb. 1868, the hall was converted into Hertford college in 1874, principal 10 Oct. 1874 to death; author of The nature and comparative value of the christian evidences considered. Bampton lectures 1849; Orationes Creweianæ 1878. _d._ Hertford college, Oxford 29 March 1877, portrait in Hertford college. _Graphic_, _xv_ 356 (1877), _portrait_. MICHELL, WILLIAM (1 son of Bennet Michell). _b._ Bodmin 14 Feb. 1796; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1839; M.R.C.S. 1813; in practice at Fore st. Bodmin 1850; M.P. Bodmin 1852–7; contested Bodmin 28 March 1857; M.P. Bodmin 30 April 1859; accepted Chiltern hundreds 5 Aug. 1859; author of On difficult cases of parturition and the use of ergot of rye 1828. _d._ Plymouth 4 Nov. 1872. MICHELL, WILLIAM EDWARDS (only son of William Michell 1805–69, registrar of the stannaries). _b._ Truro 14 March 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 18 Jany. 1861; capt. royal Cornwall and Devon miners’ artillery militia 12 Feb. 1870; lieut.-col. commanding 2 brigade western division royal artillery militia 4 April 1883 to death; F.R.A.S. _d._ Woolwich 5 Nov. 1892. _bur._ Newquay. MICKLETHWAITE, FREDERICK NATHANIEL (3 son of Nathaniel Micklethwaite of Taverham hall, Norwich 1784–1856). _b._ 1817; ed. Eton and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; his first match at Lord’s, Harrow _v._ Eton 31 July 1834; the best bat in the Eton eleven; played for Cambridge against Oxford at Lord’s 23–4 June 1836, afterwards played for I. Zingari; on committee of Marylebone club; barrister I.T. 29 April 1842. _d._ Taverham hall, Norwich 18 Oct. 1878. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 279 (1862). MICKLETHWAITE, THOMAS. _b._ 4 Sep. 1813; editor and proprietor of Sheffield Patriot 1841; proprietor and editor of Wakefield Journal and examiner 1841 to Nov. 1852; poor law auditor for west Yorkshire audit district 28 June 1851 to death; a town councillor of Wakefield; chairman of board of guardians 1849–51; high chief ranger of ancient order of Foresters 1849; barrister G.I. 30 April 1853. _d._ Wakefield 23 May 1857. _bur._ in the vicarage croft 27 May. _Wakefield Journal 29 May 1857 p._ 5. MIDDLEMIST, ROBERT. _b._ 29 Feb. 1808; a computer at Nautical almanac office, London 1831; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1834; mathematical master in royal naval school, Greenwich; entered Christ’s coll. Camb. as an undergraduate 1838, scholar, 27th wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; C. of Ufford, Northamptonshire 1843–5; senior assistant mathematical master at Harrow 1845 to death; V. of Little Linford, Bucks. 1860 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1877. _bur._ at Harrow 18 Jany. _Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 202–205. MIDDLEMORE, RICHARD (son of Richard Middlemore of The Davids, Northfield). _b._ 12 Oct. 1804; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827; an ophthalmic surgeon at Temple Row, Birmingham 1827, retired 1879; assist. surgeon Birmingham and Midland eye hospital 1828, and hon. surgeon 1835–49, gave £1000 for an annual lecture there 1888; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of the blind asylum at Edgbaston 1848 which he endowed with £2000 in 1889; founded a prize for an essay on improvements in ophthalmic medicine and surgery, to be awarded by British Medical assoc. 1877; author of A treatise on diseases of the eye and its appendages 2 vols.