Transcript

of

Henry Michelmore [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 44, (1912). p. 41.

by

Maxwell Adams (Ed.)

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was presented at the Association’s July 1912 Exeter meeting. A comprehensive obituary for Mr Michelmore, Clerk of the Devon County Council, appeared in the Western Morning News for 26 February, 1912, with a second shorter obituary appearing in the same newspaper the following week. In both these obituaries Mr Michelmore was described as “one of the best known public men in the West of England”. Copies of both obituaries are available here. The present Devonshire Association obituary may be found in a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal that can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Mr. Michelmore, who was the son of Mr. Thomas Michelmore, of Berry Pomeroy, land agent for the late Duke of Somerset, and for many years Master of the Dart Vale Harriers, was admitted a Solicitor in 1861, and practised as a member of the firm of Michelmore and Hooper, Solicitors, of Newton Abbot. He was coroner for South Devon until 1878, when he was appointed Clerk of the Peace for the County, by the late Duke of Somerset, and upon the inauguration of the County Council, in 1888, he also became Clerk to the Council and of the Standing Joint Committee. He joined the Association in 1880, was also a member of the Teign Naturalists' Field Club, and for many years Secretary of the South Devon Hunt. In 1863 he married the youngest daughter of Mr. William Tombs, of Exeter, who survives him, as also two sons and a daughter. He died, at the age of seventy-two, on 21 February, 1912, at his residence, Claremont, in Exeter