Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell

The HonourableLord MacGregor Mitchell

Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
In office 1934–1938
Preceded by	Lord St Vigeans
Succeeded by	Lord Murray

Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell (11 May 1875 – 25 April 1938) was a Scottish lawyer and judge, Liberal Member of Parliament 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.

He was educated at Perth Academy. He studied at the University of St Andrews, from which he graduated with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1895. He then studied law at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1895 with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree.

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 at the 1923 general election in a straight fight against the Conservative incumbent Noel Skelton but lost it back in 1924. He did not stand for Parliament again.

In October 1934, he was appointed as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, succeeding Lord St Vigeans, who had resigned. He took the judicial title Lord Macgregor Mitchell, and held the post until his death in 1938.

He is buried with his parents near the summit of Wellshill Cemetery in north Perth.

Sources

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
"Lord Macgregor Mitchell". The Times. No. 47978. London, England. 26 April 1938. p. 18. Retrieved 18 January 2016 – via The Times Digital Archive.
"No. 14003". The Edinburgh Gazette. 7 March 1924. p. 335.
F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949 p643
"No. 15118". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 November 1934. p. 901.
"News in Brief: Scottish Land Court". The Times. No. 46899. London, England. 31 October 1934. p. 16. Retrieved 18 January 2016 – via The Times Digital Archive.
Who was Who, OUP 2007

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert MacGregor Mitchell

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byNoel Skelton	Member for Perth 1923–1924	Succeeded byNoel Skelton
Academic offices
Preceded byGuglielmo Marconi	Rector of the University of St Andrews 1937–1938	Succeeded bySir David Munro

v t e Chairs of the Scottish Land Court
1912: Kennedy 1918: St Vigeans 1934: Macgregor Mitchell 1938: Murray 1941: Gibson 1965: Birsay 1978: Elliott 1993: Philip 1996: McGhie 2014: Minginish 2023: Duthie

v t e Rectors of the University of St Andrews
University of St Andrews	Sir Ralph Abercromby Anstruther, 4th Baronet Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet John Stuart Mill James Anthony Froude Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne Sir Theodore Martin Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay Arthur Balfour Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute James Stuart Andrew Carnegie John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Sir J. M. Barrie Rudyard Kipling Fridtjof Nansen Wilfred Grenfell Jan Smuts Guglielmo Marconi Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell Sir David Munro Sir George Cunningham David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby C. P. Snow Sir John Rothenstein Learie Constantine John Cleese Alan Coren Frank Muir Tim Brooke-Taylor Katharine Whitehorn Stanley Adams Nicholas Parsons Nicky Campbell Donald Findlay Andrew Neil Sir Clement Freud Simon Pepper Kevin Dunion Alistair Moffat Catherine Stihler Srđa Popović Leyla Hussein Stella Maris

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