Modern English biography

Modbury churchyard 6 May. _Biograph_, _iii_ 400–409 (1880); _Men of the West. Part 3 Sir W. Mitchell. March 1877 pp._ 16, _portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 413 (1878). NOTE.--He was a performer on the violoncello, bassoon, viola and flute; he procured from Paris the parts and copies for a chorus of 30 voices of Rossini’s Petite Messo Solennelle and produced the work at his residence 6 Hyde Park gate, London in May 1869. _Vanity Fair 22 May 1869 p._ 379. He also produced the Rival Beauties an operetta by Signor Randegger, which he repeated at Plymouth theatre for some charities 13 Aug. 1868. MITCHELL, WILLIAM. _b._ in the West of England about 1829; an assistant in a shop; a clown under the name of Felix Revolti; ringmaster under Charles Hengler; the Prince of ringmasters his aim being to act naturally and not to anticipate the Clown’s jokes; kept a hotel in London a short time; resumed his post of ringmaster with C. Hengler in Liverpool and London to his death; sketched the stories for some of C. Hengler’s Christmas pieces; his brother F. Mitchell was also in the equestrian business. _d._ in a railway carriage at Caledonian railway station, Glasgow 6 March 1879. _bur._ Sight Hill cemetery 10 March. _The Era 16 March 1879 pp._ 4, 5. MITCHELL, SIR WILLIAM HENRY FANCOURT (son of George Berkley Mitchell, V. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1820 to 1840). _b._ 1811; writer in colonial secretary’s office, Tasmania 2 April 1833, assistant colonial secretary 1 Aug. 1839; a squatter near Kyneton and Mount Macedon, Port Philip 1840; chief commissioner of the police 1 Jany. 1853, restored order in the gold districts and stamped out bush-ranging; member of legislative council, Victoria, Sep. 1856 to 1858 and 1860 to death; postmaster-general 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; comr. of railways 30 Dec. 1861 to 27 June 1863; chairman of committees in legislative council March 1869, president of the council 1870 to death; knighted by patent 17 July 1875; chairman of R. Goldsborough & Co. woolbrokers in Melbourne and London. _d._ Barfold near Kyneton, Victoria 24 Nov. 1884. MITFORD, JOHN (elder son of John Mitford, commander in the navy of H.E.I.Co., _d._ 18 May 1806). _b._ Richmond, Surrey 13 Aug. 1781; ed. at Tunbridge gr. sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804; C. of Kelsale, Suffolk 1809; V. of Benhall, Suffolk 17 Feb. 1810, reinstituted 5 Feb. 1824 held it to his death; domestic chaplain to lord Redesdale, Aug. 1815; R. of Weston St. Peter, Suffolk 22 Aug. 1815, R. of Stratford St. Andrew, Suffolk 1817, these livings were united 5 Feb. 1824 when he was reinstituted and held them till his death; contributed to Gent. Mag. from 1833, editor Jany. 1834 to Dec. 1850; composed numerous poems signed J. M.; edited The poems of Thomas Gray 1814, 7 ed. 1866; The works of Thomas Gray 2 vols. 1816, 2 ed. 1836; edited for Pickering’s Aldine edition of the British poets, Cowper 3 vols. 1830, Goldsmith 1831, Milton 3 vols. 1832, Dryden 5 vols. 1832–3, Parnell 1833, Swift 3 vols. 1833–4, Young 2 vols. 1834, Prior 2 vols. 1835, Butler 2 vols. 1835, Gray 4 vols. 1835–6, Falconer 1836 and Spencer 5 vols. 1839; edited Sacred specimens selected from the early English poets 1827, and The works of Milton in prose and verse 8 vols. 1851; author of Agnes the Indian captive, with other poems 1811; Miscellaneous poems