of notice that the immediately preceding 

 election was that of Henry Cavendish, 

 and that the two names stand together 

 in chronological sequence in the Record 

 of the Society. 



In the spring of the year 1763 Michell 

 gave up his residence at Cambridge and 

 became Rector of Compton in the valley 

 of the Itchin, which winds from Win- 

 chester to the sea. It was not improbably 

 with a view to his marriage that this 

 change of abode was made. The follow- 

 ing announcement appeared in the Cam- 

 bridge Chronicle of 8th September 1764. 

 " A few days ago the Rev. Mr Michell, 

 Rector of Compton, near Winchester, 

 late Fellow of Queens' College, Cam- 

 bridge, and Woodwardian Professor of 

 Fossils in this University, was married 

 to Miss Williamson, a young lady of 

 considerable fortune, near Newark in 

 Nottinghamshire." He did not long 

 retain his living at Compton, for on 

 23rd January 1765, he was collated 

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