# William Michell

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For [William Michell (MP for Derbyshire)](/source/William_Michell_(MP_for_Derbyshire)), see [Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)](/source/Derbyshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)). For those of a similar name, see [William Mitchell (disambiguation)](/source/William_Mitchell_(disambiguation)).

**William Michell** (14 February 1796 – 4 November 1872) was a British physician and [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)).

The son of Bennet Michell, he was born in [Bodmin](/source/Bodmin) in 1796. He wrote a paper on the use of [ergot](/source/Ergot) in childbirth in 1828; that year he was also admitted to [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College,_Cambridge), receiving an [MB](/source/Bachelor_of_Medicine_and_Surgery) in 1834, and an [MD](/source/Doctor_of_Medicine) in 1839.[1] Michell was admitted an [MRCS](/source/Membership_of_the_Royal_College_of_Surgeons) in 1843. He was elected an MP for [Bodmin](/source/Bodmin_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in 1852.

In 1859, faced with a petition against him by [James Wyld](/source/James_Wyld) for corrupt practices during the elections, he agreed not to defend his seat if Wyld would withdraw the petition. Attacked by [John Arthur Roebuck](/source/John_Arthur_Roebuck), who saw in this an attempt to escape charges, Michell replied that his means were insufficient to sustain the expenses necessary to defend himself against the petition. Roebuck's motion to prevent him from resigning was defeated, and he left Parliament by becoming [Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds](/source/Steward_of_the_Chiltern_Hundreds). He died in [Plymouth](/source/Plymouth,_England) in 1872.

## References

- Boase, Frederic (1897). [*Modern English Biography v. 2*](https://books.google.com/books?id=_IVmAAAAMAAJ). Netherton & Worth. p. 865. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- *Hansard's Parliamentary Debates*, 5 August 1859. "Election Compromises—Bodmin Election".

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