b. 4 June 1807. d. 6 April 1880. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet. Born in Calenick, near Truro, Cornwall. Son of the poet and tin-smelter John
Michell. Attended Truro Grammar School. Employed as a clerk in his father’s Calenick
smelting works, then moved to London and worked for a copper merchant. Friend of the
poet Thomas Campbell. Retired to Falmouth, Cornwall. Poetry volumes include *London
in Light and Darkness* (1871), *Sprits of the Past* (1853, reissued as *Famous Women
and Heroes: A Poem, in Seven Parts* [1871]), *The Heart’s Great Rulers: A Poem* (1874).
Biographical information: Reilly, *Mid-Victorian Poetry*, p. 312-13; W. H. Kearley
Wright, *West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works*, Elliot Stock, 1896, pp. 330-2;
*ODNB*. (AC)