Robert MacGregor Mitchell
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Robert MacGregor Mitchell (1875 – 25 April 1938)[1] was a Scottish lawyer and judge, Liberal Member of Parliament and University Rector.
Mitchell was the son of a solicitor from Perth. He was educated at Perth Academy and the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
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. From 1934 under his death he sat as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and was known by the judicial title of the Honourable Lord Macgregor Mitchell.[2]
He was elected Liberal MP for Perth at the 1923 general election in a straight fight against the Tory incumbent Noel Skelton but lost it back in 1924. He did not stand for Parliament again.[3]
[edit] Sources
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
- ^ Who was Who, OUP 2007
- ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949 p643
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| Preceded by Noel Skelton |
Member for Perth 1923–1924 |
Succeeded by Noel Skelton |
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| Preceded by Guglielmo Marconi |
Rector of the University of St Andrews 1937 - 1938 |
Succeeded by Sir David Munro |
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