Rector of Havant, Hants. The prospect 

 of a happy married life at this home was 

 rudely dissipated in the autumn of that 

 same year, when his young wife died at 

 Newark 1 . Two years later, on 3rd Oc- 

 tober 1 767, he was instituted Rector of 

 Thornhill, near Dewsbury in Yorkshire, 

 and remained in this office as long as he 

 lived. He subsequently married again 2 . 

 He appears to have had only one child, 

 a daughter, probably by his first wife. 

 This daughter married and is said to have 

 died at an advanced age somewhere about 

 the year 1840. 



In the summer of 1871 there appeared 

 in the journal called the English Mechanic* 

 a communication which gave some pre- 

 viously unpublished information about 

 John MichelL As the writer of the letter 

 stated that he was the great-grandson of 



1 Cambridge Chronicle, 1 2th October 1765. 



* In the church at Thornhill, the burial register 

 records that Ann Michell, relict of the late Rev. 

 J. Michell, Rector, died 6th November 1818. 



1 Vol. xiu, p. 310 (i6th June 1871). 



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