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MITCHELL, JOHN, son of David Mitchell, Carshalton House, Surrey, and Jamaica, West Indies, plantation owner, and Anne Hewitt Smith; b. Jamaica 1781; adm.; in school list 1795; KS 1796; probably Mitchell who played cricket v. Eton at Lords’s 8 Aug 1799; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1800; BA 1804; MA 1808; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1803, called to bar 1808; MP Kingston upon Hull 1818-26; of Doune Lodge, Perthshire; m. 11 Sep 1824 Eliza, eldest dau. of John Elliott, Pimlico Lodge, Westminster, porter brewer; d. 24 Jun 1827 [ or 29 Aug 1859 ?].

MITCHELL, JAMES, only son of James Mitchell (KS 1802, qv); b. 16 Jul 1809; adm. 27 Jun 1821 (G); Min. Can. 1822; left 1825; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1826; BA 1830; MA 1833; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jan 1829, called to bar 30 Jan 1835; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; DL JP West Suffolk; m. 4 Jun 1863 Caroline Augusta, second dau. of Capt. Job Thomas Syer Hanmer, Royal Navy, Holbrook Hall, Suffolk; d. 21 Jun 1895.

MITCHELL, JAMES, brother of John Mitchell (qv); bapt. 3 Apr 1788; adm. 18 Jan 1799; in school list 1801; KS 1802; left 1805; m. 1808 Eliza, dau. of E. Kaylet, Maverley, Jamaica; d. in Jamaica 1809.

MITCHELL, HUGH MACPHERSON, only son of Lieut. -Col. Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell GCMG, Royal Marines, successively Governor of Natal and of the Straits Settlements, and his first wife Fanny Oakley, second dau. of William MacPherson Rice, Chief Naval Constructor, Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, Kent; b. 24 May 1863; adm. 22 Jan 1874; left Christmas 1874; went to Tonbridge Sch. 1875, subsequently at Loretto Sch.; engineer, Great Indian Peninsular Railway.

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.

MITCHELL, DAVID, brother of John Mitchell (qv); b.; adm. Jun 1797; KS (aged 14) 1800; d. unm. c. 1806.

Mitchell, David John, son of James Watt Mitchell, grain broker, of Hampstead, and Clare Dorah Hayden of I. of Wight; b. 24 Jan. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (G); left July 1939 and went to Bradfield Coll.; Trin. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1942, BA MA 1950; pilot training in Ponca City, OK, USA, 1943; staff journalist Picture Post 1947-52; editor and proprietor Pictorial Press Ltd. 1953-6; picture editor COI London 1957-65; a freelance writer and journalist Spain 1965-73, London 1974-; awarded Civil List pension for services to literature 1998; author, Women on the Warpath 1966, The Fighting Pankhursts 1967; Bernardo O’Higgins 1975, Christabel Pankhurst 1977, The Spanish Civil War 1982, Travellers in Spain 1990; m. 1st, 1947 Valerie Eva Bennett; 2nd, 25 Feb. 1955 Cecilia Milwidsky Hopkinson, flautist, d. of Leonard Hopkinson, musician, of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk.

MITCHELL, CHARLES, only son of Sir Charles Mitchell, Kt, Capt. EIC Maritime Service, and Sarah, dau. of Thomas Patterson; b. 13 Jul 1789; adm. 23 Jan 1802; KS 1803; left Easter 1806; Cadet, EICS Madras 1805; Ensign, 18th Native Infantry 27 Jun 1806; Lieut., 14 Feb 1810; res. in India 7 Oct 1814.

MITCHELL, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715-7.

MITCHEL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1737/8.