Surname: Michell Forename(s): John b. 1774. d. 1868. Nationality: English.
Poet, chemist, and partner in a tin smelting firm in Calenick, Cornwall. Father of
the poet Nicholas Michell. Biographical information: W. H. Kearley Wright, West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works, Elliot Stock, 1896, pp. 330-2; Nicholas Michell,ODNB. (AC)