Michael Wodhull

He was a Whig supporter of civil and religious liberty, and his poems show sympathy with the views of Rousseau.

He deprecated the long war with France, and after the treaty of Amiens visited Paris to see its libraries.

[1] Thomas Frognall Dibdin and Richard Heber visited Wodhull in the winter of 1815 and found him in bad health.

He died at Thenford on 10 November 1816, and was buried in an altar-tomb under a yew-tree on the south side of the chancel.

of Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books; more of the plays in his translation were in Henry Morley's Universal Library.

J. T. Smith describes him as "very thin, with a long nose and thick lips", and clad in a coat which was tightly buttoned from under his chin.

The rest of his collections, about four thousand volumes and many manuscripts, remained at Thenford, the property of the Severne family, until 1886.

[1] On 30 November 1761 Wodhull married at Newbottle, near Banbury, Catherine Milcah, fourth daughter of the Rev.