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Michell, a wine merchant at Boston, was returned unopposed in 1761. In Bute’s list of December 1761 he was marked ‘Tory, Pitt’; but he is in Fox’s list of Members favourable to the peace preliminaries, December 1762. Jenkinson marked him as ‘doubtful’ before the opening of the session in November 1763; and so did Rockingham in July 1765. He was obviously independent, and a dark horse to all party managers. No vote or speech by him is known in the Parliament of 1761.
He died 30 Nov. 1766.
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