MITCHELL, James (4 son of James Mitchell, united presbyterian minister). b. Hope st. Anderston, Glasgow 1 Dec. 1804; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1823, LL.D. 1874; apprentice to Grahame and Mitchell, writers, Glasgow 1823, clerk, then a partner in the firm to his death; standing counsel for the United Presbyterian church; law agent to Glasgow univ. d. Park terrace, Glasgow 3 Nov. 1882. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 229–32 (1886), portrait.
MITCHELL, J. F. Song writer; went to New York 1884; wrote and composed We have calmly borne the insult 1878; There was a little man 1878; Bridget Molloy 1882; Jemmy Johnson’s holiday 1882; The wanderer 1885; Clara Nolan’s ball 1886; Gilhooley’s supper party 1888; he also wrote, music by W. Sim, That’s all bosh 1878 and Dont go yet 1881; music by E. H. Jones, The baby’s got a tooth 1878; in America he wrote, We fought in the same brigade; The exiles lament; Waiting at the ferry; and See where my ship is gliding; after the production of the Mikado in 1885 he wrote Mika M’ Alister. d. St. Vincent’s hospital, New York 12 Nov. 1888.
MITCHELL, John. b. 1785; shoemaker at Paisley; hawked his own and other literary productions throughout Renfrewshire; published at Paisley a periodical named the Moral and literary observer; author of A night on the banks of the Doon and other poems 1838; The wee steeple’s ghaist and other poems and songs 1840; One hundred original songs 1845; My grey goosequill and other poems and songs 1852; with John N. Dickie The philosophy of witchcraft 1839. d. Paisley 12 Aug. 1856. G.M. i 388–9 (1856).
MITCHELL, John (son of John Mitchell, consul-general for Norway, d. Edinburgh 17 Oct. 1826). b. Stirlingshire 11 June 1785; ed. at Lüneburg, Prussia 1797–1801; ensign 57 foot 9 July 1803; lieut. 1 foot 5 Dec. 1804, captain 1 Oct. 1807; served in the Peninsula 1810–2; captain 79 foot 8 April 1825, placed on h.p. 1 June 1826; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; author of The life of Wallenstein 1837, 2 ed. 1853; Thoughts on tactics and military organisation 1838; The art of conversation, with remarks on fashion and address. By captain Orlando Sabertash 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The fall of Napoleon, an historical memoir 3 vols. 1845. d. Edinburgh 9 July 1858. bur. in the Canongate churchyard. J. Mitchell’s Biographies of eminent soldiers: edited with a memoir of the author by Leonhard Schmitz (1865) pp. vii–xvii.
MITCHELL, John. b. London 21 April 1806; bookseller, publisher and librarian 33 Old Bond st. London 1834 to death; engaged and sold seats for theatre and other entertainments in London; introduced opera buffa at Lyceum theatre, including L’Elisir d’ Amore 10 Dec. 1836, Betly, L’Italiana in Algieri, Elisa e Claudio and others for the first time in England 1836–8; brought out Rossini’s Stabat mater, for first time in England 1842; gave French plays at St. James’ theatre with Rachel, Regnier and other great artists 1842–8; opened St. James’s theatre with French comic opera and gave Le Domino noir, L’Ambassadrice, La Dame blanche, Zanetta, Richard Cœur de lion, and Le Chalet 1849 and 1850; brought the Cologne choir to London 1853. d. 10 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 11 Dec. 1874. bur. Brompton cemet. 18 Dec. The Era 20 Dec. 1874 p. 12.
MITCHELL, John. b. 1809; 2 lieut. R.M. 5 Oct. 1827, col. 22 June 1858; col. commandant 1 March 1862 to 20 Sep. 1864 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G. d. The Mount, Totnes, Devon 9 Nov. 1888.
MITCHELL, John. b. 1809; entered choir of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 1815, lay clerk 1832 to death; present at funeral of George III. 1820; organist at Eton college 40 years. d. the Horse shoe cloisters, Windsor castle 13 Jany. 1892. Daily Graphic 14 Jany. 1892 p. 8, portrait.
MITCHELL, John Mitchell (2 son of John Mitchell). b. Falkirk 1789; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; a merchant at Leith nearly 50 years; consul-general for Belgium some time; F.S.A. Scotland; fellow of royal physical society; received gold medal of Belgian order of Leopold; author of On British commercial legislation in reference to the tariff on import duties 1849; Mesehowe: illustrations of the Runic literature of Scandinavia. Edinb. 1863; The herring, its natural history and national importance. Edinb. 1864. d. Mayville, Trinity near Edinburgh 24 April 1865.
MITCHELL, Joseph (son of John Mitchell, C.E. d. 1824). b. Forres, Elginshire 3 Nov. 1803; learnt practical masonry; apprentice to Thomas Telford 3 years; A.I.C.E. 30 March 1824, M.I.C.E. 6 June 1827; general inspector and superintendent of the Highland roads and bridges 1824–62; constructed bridges, embankments and roads in Perthshire; employed by the commissioners to plan and erect 40 churches in Scotland; engineer to board of Scottish fisheries 1828–50, when he constructed many harbours; made and opened the Inverness and Nairn railway 1855; made the Highland line 104 miles 1860–3; partner with William and Murdoch Paterson 1862, retired 1867; F.R.S. Edinb. 1843; experimented on the use of concrete for street foundations; author of Practical suggestions for relieving the thoroughfares of London, securing improved means of transit and directing the sewage from the Thames 1857; Plan for lessening the taxation by an improved administration of the railways 1865; Railway finance, suggestions for improvement of railway companies 1867; A new mode of constructing the surface of the streets 1870; resided Viewhill, Inverness. d. London 26 Nov. 1883. Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxvi 362–8 (1884).
MITCHELL, Muirhead (2 son of John Mitchell of St. Pancras, London). b. London 1810; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Battersea 1840; H.M.’s inspector of schools 18 Jany. 1847 to death; author of A sermon at Battersea church on the birth of the prince heir apparent 1841. d. 50 Pall Mall, London 26 Feb. 1876, will proved for £100,000 April 1876.