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MITCHELL, FRANCIS HENRY, brother of John Mitchell (qv); b. 23 Oct 1794; adm.; probably the TB of this surname who played cricket for TBB v KSS 1809; KS 1809; left 1811; a sugar broker in London; m. 1820 Frances Elizabeth, dau. of John Johnstone, Dumfries, barrister, sometime Private Secretary to Governor of Jamaica; d. 2 Aug 1891.
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The most distant in his generation of the Mitchell family (a prominent slave-owning family) from the slave-economy, however the sources of the immense wealth amassed over his life has not been traced. No claim has been found for him in the compensation process, although there is reportedly evidence of him as a mortgagee with his brother Rowland Mitchell of the Mears estate which had belonged to their father David.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Revised by Bethany Duck, Archive Assistant, September 2020
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Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146633051
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.