Robert MacGregor Mitchell (11 May 1875 – 25 April 1938) was a Scottish lawyer and judge,
Liberal
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Member of Parliament
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and
University Rector.
Early life
Mitchell was the son of Mary Rollo (1846–1933) and her husband, Robert Mitchell (1842–1892), a
solicitor from
Perth
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.
He was educated at
Perth Academy
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, and at the
University of St Andrews
(Aien aristeuein)
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Ancient university
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, where graduated with an
MA in 1895. He then studied law at the
University of Edinburgh
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, graduating in 1895 with an
LLB
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.
Career
He practised as a solicitor in Perth for some years and was
called to the Scottish Bar in 1914. He became a
King's Counsel in 1924.
He was elected Liberal MP for
Perth
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at the
1923 general election in a straight fight against the
Conservative
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incumbent
Noel Skelton
Archibald Noel Skelton (1 July 1880 – 22 November 1935) was a Scottish Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual.
Early life
The son of Sir John Skelton KCB LLD, Skelton was born on 1 July 1880 at Hermitage of Braid in Edinburgh a ...
but lost it back in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
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. He did not stand for Parliament again.
In October 1934, he was appointed as Chairman of the
Scottish Land Court
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,
succeeding
Lord St Vigeans, who had resigned.
He took the judicial title Lord Macgregor Mitchell,
[''Who was Who'', OUP 2007] and held the post until his death in 1938.
He is buried with his parents near the summit of
Wellshill Cemetery in north Perth.
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1875 births
1938 deaths
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Alumni of the University of St Andrews
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