Robert Weld Mitchell MBE (10 August 1915 – 13 December 1994) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

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and a lawyer. He was born in

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, the son of Percy Dawson Mitchell and Olive Weld, and was educated at

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and

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. Mitchell was called to the Ontario bar in 1958. He was a director of William Weld Co. Ltd., served as president of the London Boy Scouts Association, was president of the London Chamber of Commerce from 1962 to 1963 and served as vice-president of

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, later part of

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. Between 1940 and 1945, Mitchell served in the Canadian Army with

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. He was first elected at the

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riding in the 1953 general election. After serving only one federal term, the

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, Mitchell left federal politics and did not seek re-election. He died in 1994.Woodland Cemetery Burial Records.

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