Constituency Dates
Boston 1741 – 1754, 1761 – 30 Nov. 1766
Family and Education
b. 20 Jan. 1710, 2nd s. of Simon Michell of St. John’s, Clerkenwell by Charity, sis. and h. of Richard Hutton of Lincoln’s Inn. educ. Charterhouse, King’s, Camb. 1727-30; L. Inn 1727. m. (1) Hannah (d. 28 Oct. 1749), da. of Mrs. Anne Hall,1PCC 301 Greenly; Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, iii. 268. s.p.; (2) 20 May 1754, Frances, da. of Jacob Preston of Beeston St. Laurence, Norf., wid. of William Jermy, 2s. 1da.
Offices Held

Mayor, Boston 1744, 1758; recorder 1759.

Address
Main residence: Boston, Lincs.
biography text

Michell was a wine merchant at Boston, for which he was returned as a Tory in succession to his partner and brother-in-law, Richard Fydell. He voted against the Administration in all three divisions on the Hanoverians in the 1741 Parliament and was classed as Opposition in 1747. He died 30 Nov. 1766.

Author
P.W.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. PCC 301 Greenly; Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, iii. 268.