Robert Andrew Mitchell was

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from 1930 to 1949. Born in 1870, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and

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in 1893. His first post was as a curate at St Mary-at-the-Walls,

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, after which he was

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then of

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1870 births Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Deans of Lincoln 1949 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub