David Robert Michel

Profile & Legacies Summary

1735 - 1805

Biography

MP for Lyme Regis 1780-1784 "on the Fane interest". His son John Michel (q.v.) married as his second wife Anne, daughter of Henry Fane MP and sister of Vere Fane (q.v.). His niece Anne Buckley Batson, married Anne and Vere Fane's brother Henry Fane of Fulbeck (MP for Lyme Regis 1772-1802).

The Michel family first came to be in possession of Mountain River and Mount Ephraim estates in Jamaica through David Robert Michel's first wife Grace Harrison Ayscough, according to the History of Parliament the daughter [sic] of John Ayscough of Jamaica, but in fact his niece: her father was Thomas Ayscough.

Will of David Robert Michel of Dewlish Dorset proved 28/05/1805. Under the will he left his Mount Ephraim estate to his son Charles William Michel and his Mountain River estate to his son John Michel, with advice not to sell the estates 'unless great convenience or necessity should urge them to it.'

Sources

History of Parliament online: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/michel-david-robert-1735-1805 [accessed 12/11/2013].

PROB 11/1426/187.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

(1) Grace Ayscough (2) Eleanor Poore

Children

With (1) 5 sons, including John Michel (c. 1768-1844), 7 daughters

Occupation

Soldier and politician

Associated Estates (2)

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