Robert Michell (10 April 1653 – 1 August 1729) was an English politician who was a

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for Petersfield during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Biography

Michell was born at Warnham, the son of Edwin Michell and Mary née Middleton.'One hundred years of a pocket borough: Petersfield and Parliament, 1685–1783' Surry, N. p10: Petersfield; Petersfield Area Historical Society (Paper No. 7); 1983 On 12 August 1675 he married Margaret White: they had two sons. Mary died in May 1679; and he later married Jane Bold, daughter of

Arthur Bold Arthur Bold (c 1604 - 22 May 1677) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1677. Bold was the son of Arthur Bold, of Petersfield, Hampshire. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 26 June 1621, ...

, MP. His third wife was Theodosia Montagu, daughter of George Montagu, MP: they had one daughter.

References

People from Warnham 17th-century English MPs English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1701–1702 1653 births 1729 deaths {{18thC-England-MP-stub