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former office up to the time of his death, and on the creation of 

 the new Joint Port Sanitary Authority that year, he was 

 unanimously elected to the post of medical officer to the new 

 body. Few men in West Cornwall held a larger number of 

 honorary offices. He was in succession secretary and librarian 

 of the Penzance Library, in the affairs of which he ever took a 

 most active interest. He was also a president of Penzance 

 Institute, vice-president of Penzance Natural History and 

 Antiq.uarian Society (which he had previously served as secretary 

 and president) ; vice-president of St. Mary's Branch of the 

 Church of England Temperance Society, and vice-president of 

 Penzance branch of the Young Men's Christian Association. 

 On the retirement of Mr. Ambrose Taylor, he was appointed 

 secretary of the Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall, and 

 continued to hold the office to the time of his death. In 1867 

 he was elected a corresponding member of the New England 

 Historic Genealogical Society. Mr. Millett was the author of 

 several publications including " Penzance Past and Present," 

 and of a number of songs, some of which he set to music. 

 Perhaps the most famous of these is " The Mayor of Market 

 Jew," which was often sung at concerts in West Cornwall, and 

 was included in several anthologies of West Country verse. 

 The deceased gentleman also most carefully edited the parish 

 registers of Madron and Gulval." He was unmarried. His 

 burial took place on the 21st, at Madron. Mr. Millett wrote 

 in different Magazines many accounts of matters and objects 

 of interest ; and also edited and contributed to transactions and 

 other literary works connected with Penzance. He frequently 

 attended the Meetings of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, 

 &c., and his circle of friends extended far beyond the County. 



It is unnecessary here to give a comprehensive notice of his 

 family connections and of his writings, as they have been very 

 fully recorded in the valuable volumes of Messrs. Boase and 

 Courtney : —The Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, and Collectanea 



Cornubiensia. 



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