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{{Short description|Irish clergyman and activist (1853–1936)}} | ||
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| name = Alfred Mansfield Mitchell | | name = Alfred Mansfield Mitchell | ||
| image = Alfred Mansfield Mitchell.png | | image = Alfred Mansfield Mitchell.png | ||
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| caption = Portrait from obituary | ||
| birth_date = 1853 | | birth_date = 1853 | ||
| birth_place = ] | | birth_place = ], Ireland | ||
| death_date = 18 February 1936 (aged 83) | | death_date = 18 February 1936 (aged 83) | ||
| death_place = ] | | death_place = ], England | ||
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| resting_place = Burtonwood Cemetery | ||
| education = ] (], 1879; ], 1884) | |||
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| occupation = Clergyman, activist | |||
| spouse = {{Marriage|Janet Elizabeth Louisa Hammond|1887}} | |||
| signature = Alfred Mansfied Mitchell signature.png | |||
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'''Alfred Mansfield Mitchell''' (1853 – 18 February 1936) was an Irish clergyman and activist for ] |
'''Alfred Mansfield Mitchell''' (1853 – 18 February 1936) was an Irish clergyman and activist. He advocated for ], ], ], and against poverty. He was the longest serving vicar of St Michael's Anglican Church in ].<ref name="Warrington">{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=History and heritage of our cemeteries |url=https://www.warrington.gov.uk/history-and-heritage-our-cemeteries |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416113558/https://www.warrington.gov.uk/history-and-heritage-our-cemeteries |archive-date=2024-04-16 |website=Warrington Borough Council |language=en-GB}}</ref> | ||
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== Biography == | ||
=== Career === | |||
Mitchell was born in ]. He was ordained in 1879 and became a priest the following year.<ref name="Liverpool Echo">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19360218&page=5 | |
Mitchell was born in ]. He was ordained in 1879 and became a priest the following year.<ref name="Liverpool Echo">{{cite news |date=1936-02-18 |title=A Notable Cleric: Death of Rev. A. M. Mitchell of Burtonwood |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000271%2F19360218&page=5 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=] |page=5}}</ref> Mitchell obtained his ] from ] in 1879 and ] in 1884.<ref>{{Cite book |title=] |year=1932 |page= |chapter=Mitchell, Alfred Mansfield}}</ref> He was a curate at ] before moving to England, where he held curacies at ], ], and ].<ref name="Liverpool Echo" /> Mitchell was appointed vicar at St Michael's Anglican Church in ] in 1891, a position he held for 45 years.<ref name="Warrington" /><ref name="Liverpool Echo" /> His parish magazine ''Excelsior'' was widely read.<ref name="Liverpool Echo" /> | ||
Mitchell was an alderman of ], a member of Burtonwood Parish Council and chairman of the Warrington County Elementary Education Committee.<ref name="Liverpool Echo"/><ref name="Newton">{{cite news| |
Mitchell was an alderman of ], a member of Burtonwood Parish Council and chairman of the Warrington County Elementary Education Committee.<ref name="Liverpool Echo" /><ref name="Newton">{{cite news |date=1936-02-21 |title=Death of Burtonwood Vicar: Champion of the Poor |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005262%2F19360221&page=5 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=Newton and Earlestown Guardian |page=5}}</ref> He was a ] and campaigned to help the poor.<ref name="Newton" /> Mitchell also served as president of the People's League of Medical Freedom.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=P. S. |date=January 1991 |title=Medically qualified naturopaths and the General Medical Council |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/DAC0AD8D602B4BAE80367139AF6032B9/S0025727300053126a.pdf/medically-qualified-naturopaths-and-the-general-medical-council.pdf |journal=Medical History |language=en |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=50–77 |doi=10.1017/S0025727300053126 |issn=0025-7273 |pmc=1036269 |pmid=2008122}}</ref> | ||
Mitchell was an ] and opposed the use of animals in filmmaking.<ref name="Liverpool Echo" /><ref>{{cite news |date=1920-12-23 |title=A Vicar on Vivisection |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000649%2F19201223&page=3 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=] |page=3}}</ref> He argued that filmmakers were cruel to animals and planned to get a Bill passed through Parliament which would stop trained animals appearing in films.<ref name="Newton" /> He was a member of the ] and a vice-president of the Warrington Anti-Vivisection Society.<ref>{{cite news |date=1912-11-09 |title=Anti-Vivisection: Annual Meeting of the Warrington Branch |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002601%2F19121109&page=6 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=The Examiner |page=6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=1920-04-03 |title=Vivisection a Licensed Evil |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002601%2F19200403&page=10 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=The Examiner |page=10}}</ref> | |||
==Vegetarianism== |
=== Vegetarianism === | ||
⚫ | Mitchell was a ], non-smoker and teetotaller.<ref name="Liverpool Echo" /><ref name="Newton" /> He was disappointed that there was a large amount of antagonism against vegetarianism in the Church.<ref>{{cite news |date=1914-12-15 |title=Vegetarianism as a Peace Promoter |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000206%2F19141215&page=6 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=] |page=6}}</ref> He argued that meat dishes at Christmas festivals were non-Christian, stating that they are a "debasing and degrading orgie, a festival of blood, a festival of cruelty".<ref>{{cite news |date=1910-12-21 |title=Anti-Christmas |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005271%2F19101221&page=6 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=The Halifax Daily Guardian |page=6}}</ref> In 1907, he commented that "vegetarians or food reformers are the only consistent worshippers and the flesh-eater is convicted of inconsistency and falsehood".<ref>{{cite news |date=1907-09-18 |title=Harvest Festivals Condemned |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000038%2F19070918&page=5 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=] |page=5}}</ref> Mitchell stated that meat-eaters who decorated churches for the ] were making the festival a service of lies and questioned why they didn't also use "trophies of the butcher's art".<ref>{{cite news |date=1907-09-17 |title=Harvest Festivals |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000051%2F19070917&page=4 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=The Daily News |page=4}}</ref> In 1910, he published the pamphlet "The Church and Food Reform".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-23 |title=Publications |url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/publications/2/ |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=] |language=en-GB}}</ref> He condemned such festivals as "uric-acid festivals" for meat-eaters.<ref>{{cite news |date=1907-09-17 |title=Service of Lies |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004833%2F19070917&page=5 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=The Morning Leader |page=5}}</ref> | ||
⚫ | Mitchell was a vice-president of the ], from 1922, and a speaker at its meetings.<ref>{{cite news |date=1914-12-12 |title=The Vegetarian Society's 67th Anniversary Meetings |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19141212&page=1 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=] |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=1914-12-12 |title=Vegetarian Society |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19141212&page=10 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=] |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Rev. Alfred Mansfield Mitchell, M.A. (1853-1936) |url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/obituaries/rev-alfred-mansfied-mitchell/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803170951/https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/obituaries/rev-alfred-mansfied-mitchell/ |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |website=] |language=en-GB}}</ref> He was a council member of ]'s fruitarian Lady Margaret Hospital in ].<ref>{{cite news |date=1906-03-17 |title=Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004642%2F19060317&page=5 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=The Bromley Telegraph and Chislehurst Chronicle |page=5}}</ref> He was also a council member of the ]<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 1911 |title=The Order of the Golden Age |url=https://ia601605.us.archive.org/1/items/heraldofgoldenjul1911exetuoft/heraldofgoldenjul1911exetuoft.pdf |journal=] |volume=XIV |issue=7 |pages=185 |via=]}}</ref> and wrote for its journal, ''The Herald of the Golden Age''.<ref>{{cite journal |year=1907 |title=The Christmas Altar |url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/herald_of_the_golden_age/herald_of_the_golden_age_v11_n5_jan_1907.pdf |journal=] |volume=40 |issue=5 |pages=88–89}}</ref> | ||
⚫ | Mitchell was a vegetarian, non-smoker and teetotaller.<ref name="Liverpool Echo"/><ref name="Newton"/> He was disappointed that there was a large amount of antagonism against vegetarianism in the Church.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000206%2F19141215&page=6 | |
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=== Personal life and death === | |||
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]On 8 September 1887, Mitchell married Janet Elizabeth Louisa, the daughter of the solicitor William Hammond of London, at ], Salisbury.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1887-09-13 |title=Marriages |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/387967443/?terms=%22Marriages%22&match=3 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |work=]}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | Mitchell died in Burtonwood on 18 February 1936, aged 83.<ref name="Liverpool Echo" /> He was buried at Burtonwood Cemetery.<ref name="Warrington" /><ref>{{cite news |date=1926-02-28 |title=Funeral of the Late Rev. A. M. Mitchell |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005262%2F19360228&page=5 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-12-20 |newspaper=Newton and Earlestown Guardian |page=5}}</ref> | ||
==Death== | |||
⚫ | == Selected publications == | ||
⚫ | Mitchell died in Burtonwood, aged 83.<ref name=" |
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⚫ | *{{cite journal |year=1900 |title=I claim greater Health, Fitness, and Happiness |journal=] |url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/herald_of_the_golden_age/herald_of_the_golden_age_v5_n12_dec_15_1900.pdf|volume=5 |issue=12 |pages=185–186}} | ||
*''Humane Education: A Plea for a Humane and Ethical System of Elementary Education''. 1906.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Alfred Mansfield |title=Humane education. A plea for a humane and ethical system of elementary education |publisher=Fifield |year=1906 |location=London |oclc=81806245}}</ref> | |||
*{{cite journal |year=1907 |title=The Christmas Altar |journal=The Herald of the Golden Age |url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/herald_of_the_golden_age/herald_of_the_golden_age_v11_n5_jan_1907.pdf |volume=40 |issue=5 |pages=88–89}} | |||
*{{Cite journal |date=December 1909 |title=Christmas Cruelties |url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/articles/excelsior/ |journal=Burton Wood Parish Magazine}} | |||
*{{Cite journal |date= |title=What Shall We Eat? |url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/articles/what-shall-we-eat/ |journal=Burton Wood Parish Magazine}} | |||
*{{cite journal |date=April 1910 |title=The Church and Food Reform |journal=The Herald of the Golden Age |url=https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/articles/the-church-and-food-reform/}} | |||
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Irish clergyman and activist (1853–1936)
The ReverendAlfred Mansfield Mitchell | |
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Portrait from obituary | |
Born | 1853 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 18 February 1936 (aged 83) Burtonwood, England |
Resting place | Burtonwood Cemetery |
Education | Trinity College Dublin (B.A., 1879; M.A., 1884) |
Occupation(s) | Clergyman, activist |
Spouse |
Janet Elizabeth Louisa Hammond
(m. 1887) |
Signature | |
Alfred Mansfield Mitchell (1853 – 18 February 1936) was an Irish clergyman and activist. He advocated for anti-vivisection, vegetarianism, pacifism, and against poverty. He was the longest serving vicar of St Michael's Anglican Church in Burtonwood.
Biography
Career
Mitchell was born in Dublin. He was ordained in 1879 and became a priest the following year. Mitchell obtained his B.A. from Trinity College in 1879 and M.A. in 1884. He was a curate at Clonmel before moving to England, where he held curacies at Warrington, Kentish Town, and Clerkenwell. Mitchell was appointed vicar at St Michael's Anglican Church in Burtonwood in 1891, a position he held for 45 years. His parish magazine Excelsior was widely read.
Mitchell was an alderman of Lancashire County Council, a member of Burtonwood Parish Council and chairman of the Warrington County Elementary Education Committee. He was a pacifist and campaigned to help the poor. Mitchell also served as president of the People's League of Medical Freedom.
Mitchell was an anti-vivisectionist and opposed the use of animals in filmmaking. He argued that filmmakers were cruel to animals and planned to get a Bill passed through Parliament which would stop trained animals appearing in films. He was a member of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection and a vice-president of the Warrington Anti-Vivisection Society.
Vegetarianism
Mitchell was a vegetarian, non-smoker and teetotaller. He was disappointed that there was a large amount of antagonism against vegetarianism in the Church. He argued that meat dishes at Christmas festivals were non-Christian, stating that they are a "debasing and degrading orgie, a festival of blood, a festival of cruelty". In 1907, he commented that "vegetarians or food reformers are the only consistent worshippers and the flesh-eater is convicted of inconsistency and falsehood". Mitchell stated that meat-eaters who decorated churches for the harvest festival were making the festival a service of lies and questioned why they didn't also use "trophies of the butcher's art". In 1910, he published the pamphlet "The Church and Food Reform". He condemned such festivals as "uric-acid festivals" for meat-eaters.
Mitchell was a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society, from 1922, and a speaker at its meetings. He was a council member of Josiah Oldfield's fruitarian Lady Margaret Hospital in Bromley. He was also a council member of the Order of the Golden Age and wrote for its journal, The Herald of the Golden Age.
Personal life and death
On 8 September 1887, Mitchell married Janet Elizabeth Louisa, the daughter of the solicitor William Hammond of London, at Stratford-sub-Castle, Salisbury.
Mitchell died in Burtonwood on 18 February 1936, aged 83. He was buried at Burtonwood Cemetery.
Selected publications
- "I claim greater Health, Fitness, and Happiness" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 5 (12): 185–186. 1900.
- Humane Education: A Plea for a Humane and Ethical System of Elementary Education. 1906.
- "The Christmas Altar" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 40 (5): 88–89. 1907.
- "Christmas Cruelties". Burton Wood Parish Magazine. December 1909.
- "What Shall We Eat?". Burton Wood Parish Magazine.
- "The Church and Food Reform". The Herald of the Golden Age. April 1910.
References
- ^ "History and heritage of our cemeteries". Warrington Borough Council. 2020. Archived from the original on 16 April 2024.
- ^ "A Notable Cleric: Death of Rev. A. M. Mitchell of Burtonwood". Liverpool Echo. 18 February 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Mitchell, Alfred Mansfield". Crockford's Clerical Directory. 1932. p. 901.
- ^ "Death of Burtonwood Vicar: Champion of the Poor". Newton and Earlestown Guardian. 21 February 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- Brown, P. S. (January 1991). "Medically qualified naturopaths and the General Medical Council" (PDF). Medical History. 35 (1): 50–77. doi:10.1017/S0025727300053126. ISSN 0025-7273. PMC 1036269. PMID 2008122.
- "A Vicar on Vivisection". Liverpool Daily Post. 23 December 1920. p. 3. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Anti-Vivisection: Annual Meeting of the Warrington Branch". The Examiner. 9 November 1912. p. 6. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Vivisection a Licensed Evil". The Examiner. 3 April 1920. p. 10. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Vegetarianism as a Peace Promoter". Manchester Courier. 15 December 1914. p. 6. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Anti-Christmas". The Halifax Daily Guardian. 21 December 1910. p. 6. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Harvest Festivals Condemned". The Belfast News Letter. 18 September 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Harvest Festivals". The Daily News. 17 September 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Publications". The Order of the Golden Age. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Service of Lies". The Morning Leader. 17 September 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "The Vegetarian Society's 67th Anniversary Meetings". Manchester City News. 12 December 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Vegetarian Society". Manchester City News. 12 December 1914. p. 10. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Rev. Alfred Mansfield Mitchell, M.A. (1853-1936)". Order of the Golden Age. 2020. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020.
- "Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley". The Bromley Telegraph and Chislehurst Chronicle. 17 March 1906. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "The Order of the Golden Age" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. XIV (7): 185. July 1911 – via Internet Archive.
- "The Christmas Altar" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 40 (5): 88–89. 1907.
- "Marriages". Belfast News Letter. 13 September 1887. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- "Funeral of the Late Rev. A. M. Mitchell". Newton and Earlestown Guardian. 28 February 1926. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- Mitchell, Alfred Mansfield (1906). Humane education. A plea for a humane and ethical system of elementary education. London: Fifield. OCLC 81806245.
External links
- Media related to Alfred Mansfield Mitchell at Wikimedia Commons
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