Richard Michell

Richard Michell (1805–1877) was an English churchman and academic, the first principal of the second foundation of Hertford College, Oxford.

Educated at Bruton grammar school, he went in 1820 to Wadham College, Oxford, where his uncle, Dr. Richard Michell (1766-1826), was a Fellow.

[1] At the age of 24 Michell was appointed examiner in the school of literae humaniores, and was elected in 1830 Fellow of Lincoln College, where he acted as bursar in 1832, and as tutor from 1834 to 1848.

On the formation of the new hebdomadal council under the act for reforming the university in 1854, Michell was elected to a seat, and retained it by till 1872.

In 1848 he became vice-principal of Magdalen Hall, now Hertford College, of which John David Macbride was then Principal; he succeeded William Jacobson.

T. C. Baring endowed the college with a large number of fellowships and scholarships, mostly limited to members of the church of England.