Modbury churchyard 6 May. _Biograph_, _iii_ 400–409 (1880);
_Men of the West. Part 3 Sir W. Mitchell. March 1877 pp._ 16,
_portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 413 (1878).
NOTE.--He was a performer on the violoncello, bassoon, viola and flute;
he procured from Paris the parts and copies for a chorus of 30 voices
of Rossini’s Petite Messo Solennelle and produced the work at his
residence 6 Hyde Park gate, London in May 1869. _Vanity Fair 22 May
1869 p._ 379. He also produced the Rival Beauties an operetta by Signor
Randegger, which he repeated at Plymouth theatre for some charities 13
Aug. 1868.
MITCHELL, WILLIAM. _b._ in the West of England about 1829; an
assistant in a shop; a clown under the name of Felix Revolti;
ringmaster under Charles Hengler; the Prince of ringmasters his
aim being to act naturally and not to anticipate the Clown’s
jokes; kept a hotel in London a short time; resumed his post of
ringmaster with C. Hengler in Liverpool and London to his death;
sketched the stories for some of C. Hengler’s Christmas pieces;
his brother F. Mitchell was also in the equestrian business.
_d._ in a railway carriage at Caledonian railway station,
Glasgow 6 March 1879. _bur._ Sight Hill cemetery 10 March. _The
Era 16 March 1879 pp._ 4, 5.
MITCHELL, SIR WILLIAM HENRY FANCOURT (son of George Berkley
Mitchell, V. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1820 to 1840). _b._ 1811;
writer in colonial secretary’s office, Tasmania 2 April 1833,
assistant colonial secretary 1 Aug. 1839; a squatter near
Kyneton and Mount Macedon, Port Philip 1840; chief commissioner
of the police 1 Jany. 1853, restored order in the gold
districts and stamped out bush-ranging; member of legislative
council, Victoria, Sep. 1856 to 1858 and 1860 to death;
postmaster-general 29 April 1857 to 10 March 1858; comr. of
railways 30 Dec. 1861 to 27 June 1863; chairman of committees
in legislative council March 1869, president of the council
1870 to death; knighted by patent 17 July 1875; chairman of R.
Goldsborough & Co. woolbrokers in Melbourne and London. _d._
Barfold near Kyneton, Victoria 24 Nov. 1884.
MITFORD, JOHN (elder son of John Mitford, commander in the navy
of H.E.I.Co., _d._ 18 May 1806). _b._ Richmond, Surrey 13 Aug.
1781; ed. at Tunbridge gr. sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804;
C. of Kelsale, Suffolk 1809; V. of Benhall, Suffolk 17 Feb.
1810, reinstituted 5 Feb. 1824 held it to his death; domestic
chaplain to lord Redesdale, Aug. 1815; R. of Weston St. Peter,
Suffolk 22 Aug. 1815, R. of Stratford St. Andrew, Suffolk 1817,
these livings were united 5 Feb. 1824 when he was reinstituted
and held them till his death; contributed to Gent. Mag. from
1833, editor Jany. 1834 to Dec. 1850; composed numerous poems
signed J. M.; edited The poems of Thomas Gray 1814, 7 ed. 1866;
The works of Thomas Gray 2 vols. 1816, 2 ed. 1836; edited for
Pickering’s Aldine edition of the British poets, Cowper 3 vols.
1830, Goldsmith 1831, Milton 3 vols. 1832, Dryden 5 vols.
1832–3, Parnell 1833, Swift 3 vols. 1833–4, Young 2 vols. 1834,
Prior 2 vols. 1835, Butler 2 vols. 1835, Gray 4 vols. 1835–6,
Falconer 1836 and Spencer 5 vols. 1839; edited Sacred specimens
selected from the early English poets 1827, and The works of
Milton in prose and verse 8 vols. 1851; author of Agnes the
Indian captive, with other poems 1811; Miscellaneous poems