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'''Alfred Mansfield Mitchell''' (1853 – 18 February 1936) was an Irish clergyman and activist for ] and ]. 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|website=Warrington Borough Council|language=en-GB|archive-date=April 16, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416113558/https://www.warrington.gov.uk/history-and-heritage-our-cemeteries|url-status=live}}</ref> '''Alfred Mansfield Mitchell''' (1853 – 18 February 1936) was an Irish clergyman and activist for ] and ]. 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|website=Warrington Borough Council|language=en-GB|archive-date=April 16, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416113558/https://www.warrington.gov.uk/history-and-heritage-our-cemeteries|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Career== ==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 |title=A Notable Cleric: Death of Rev. A. M. Mitchell of Burtonwood|newspaper=Liverpool Echo|date=February 18, 1936|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He obtained his M.A. degree from ] in 1884. He was a curate at ] and later moved to Britain where he held curacies at ], ] and ].<ref name="Liverpool Echo"/> He was appointed vicar at St Michael’s Anglican Church in Burtonwood 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 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 |title=A Notable Cleric: Death of Rev. A. M. Mitchell of Burtonwood|newspaper=Liverpool Echo|date=February 18, 1936|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He obtained his M.A. degree from ] in 1884. He was a curate at ] and later moved to Britain where he held curacies at ], ] and ].<ref name="Liverpool Echo"/> He was appointed vicar at St Michael's Anglican Church in Burtonwood 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|url= https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005262%2F19360221&page=5|title=Death of Burtonwood Vicar: Champion of the Poor |newspaper=Newton and Earlestown Guardian |date=February 21, 1936|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</ref> Mitchell was a ] and campaigned to help the poor.<ref name="Newton"/> 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|url= https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005262%2F19360221&page=5|title=Death of Burtonwood Vicar: Champion of the Poor |newspaper=Newton and Earlestown Guardian |date=February 21, 1936|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</ref> Mitchell was a ] and campaigned to help the poor.<ref name="Newton"/>
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He was an anti-vivisectionist and opposed the use of animals in film making.<ref name="Liverpool Echo"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000649%2F19201223&page=3|title=A Vicar on Vivisection|newspaper=Liverpool Daily Post|date=December 23, 1920|page=3}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He argued that film-makers 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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002601%2F19121109&page=6|title=Anti-Vivisection: Annual Meeting of the Warrington Branch|newspaper=The Examiner|date=November 9, 1912|page=6}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002601%2F19200403&page=10 |title=Vivisection a Licensed Evil|newspaper=The Examiner |date=April 3, 1920|page=10}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He was an anti-vivisectionist and opposed the use of animals in film making.<ref name="Liverpool Echo"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000649%2F19201223&page=3|title=A Vicar on Vivisection|newspaper=Liverpool Daily Post|date=December 23, 1920|page=3}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He argued that film-makers 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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002601%2F19121109&page=6|title=Anti-Vivisection: Annual Meeting of the Warrington Branch|newspaper=The Examiner|date=November 9, 1912|page=6}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002601%2F19200403&page=10 |title=Vivisection a Licensed Evil|newspaper=The Examiner |date=April 3, 1920|page=10}} {{subscription required}}</ref>


==Vegetarianism== ==Vegetarianism==


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 |title=Vegetarianism as a Peace Promoter|newspaper=Manchester Courier |date=December 15, 1914|page=6}} {{subscription required}}</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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005271%2F19101221&page=6 |title=Anti-Christmas|newspaper=The Halifax Daily Guardian |date=December 21, 1910|page=6}} {{subscription required}}</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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000038%2F19070918&page=5|title=Harvest Festivals Condemned|newspaper=The Belfast News-Letter |date=September 18, 1907|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000051%2F19070917&page=4|title=Harvest Festivals|newspaper=The Daily News |date=September 17, 1907|page=4}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He condemned such festivals as "uric-acid festivals" for meat-eaters.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004833%2F19070917&page=5 |title=Service of Lies|newspaper=The Morning Leader |date=September 17, 1907|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</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 |title=Vegetarianism as a Peace Promoter|newspaper=Manchester Courier |date=December 15, 1914|page=6}} {{subscription required}}</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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0005271%2F19101221&page=6 |title=Anti-Christmas|newspaper=The Halifax Daily Guardian |date=December 21, 1910|page=6}} {{subscription required}}</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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000038%2F19070918&page=5|title=Harvest Festivals Condemned|newspaper=The Belfast News-Letter |date=September 18, 1907|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</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|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000051%2F19070917&page=4|title=Harvest Festivals|newspaper=The Daily News |date=September 17, 1907|page=4}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He condemned such festivals as "uric-acid festivals" for meat-eaters.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004833%2F19070917&page=5 |title=Service of Lies|newspaper=The Morning Leader |date=September 17, 1907|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</ref>


He was a vice-president of the ] and a speaker at their meetings.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19141212&page=1 |title=The Vegetarian Society's 67th Anniversary Meetings|newspaper=Manchester City News|date=December 12, 1914|page=1}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19141212&page=10 |title=Vegetarian Society|newspaper=Manchester City News |date=December 12, 1914|page=10}} {{subscription required}}</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/|website=Order of the Golden Age|language=en-GB|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803170951/https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/obituaries/rev-alfred-mansfied-mitchell/|url-status=live}}</ref> Mitchell was a council member of ]'s fruitarian Lady Margaret Hospital in ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004642%2F19060317&page=5|title=Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley|newspaper=The Bromley Telegraph and Chislehurst Chronicle|date=March 17, 1906|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He was a vice-president of the ] and a speaker at their meetings.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19141212&page=1 |title=The Vegetarian Society's 67th Anniversary Meetings|newspaper=Manchester City News|date=December 12, 1914|page=1}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19141212&page=10 |title=Vegetarian Society|newspaper=Manchester City News |date=December 12, 1914|page=10}} {{subscription required}}</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/|website=Order of the Golden Age|language=en-GB|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803170951/https://www.ordergoldenage.co.uk/obituaries/rev-alfred-mansfied-mitchell/|url-status=live}}</ref> Mitchell was a council member of ]'s fruitarian Lady Margaret Hospital in ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004642%2F19060317&page=5|title=Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley|newspaper=The Bromley Telegraph and Chislehurst Chronicle|date=March 17, 1906|page=5}} {{subscription required}}</ref>


==Death== ==Death==
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Irish Clergyman
Alfred Mansfield Mitchell
Born1853
Dublin
Died18 February 1936 (aged 83)
Burtonwood
OccupationClergyman

Alfred Mansfield Mitchell (1853 – 18 February 1936) was an Irish clergyman and activist for anti-vivisection and vegetarianism. He was the longest serving vicar of St Michael's Anglican Church in Burtonwood.

Career

Mitchell was born in Dublin. He was ordained in 1879 and became a priest the following year. He obtained his M.A. degree from Trinity College in 1884. He was a curate at Clonmel and later moved to Britain where he held curacies at Warrington, Kentish Town and Clerkenwell. He 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. Mitchell was a pacificist and campaigned to help the poor.

He was an anti-vivisectionist and opposed the use of animals in film making. He argued that film-makers 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". He condemned such festivals as "uric-acid festivals" for meat-eaters.

He was a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society and a speaker at their meetings. Mitchell was a council member of Josiah Oldfield's fruitarian Lady Margaret Hospital in Bromley.

Death

Mitchell died in Burtonwood, aged 83. He was buried at Burtonwood Cemetery.

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "History and heritage of our cemeteries". Warrington Borough Council. 2020. Archived from the original on April 16, 2024.
  2. ^ "A Notable Cleric: Death of Rev. A. M. Mitchell of Burtonwood". Liverpool Echo. February 18, 1936. p. 5. (subscription required)
  3. ^ "Death of Burtonwood Vicar: Champion of the Poor". Newton and Earlestown Guardian. February 21, 1936. p. 5. (subscription required)
  4. "A Vicar on Vivisection". Liverpool Daily Post. December 23, 1920. p. 3. (subscription required)
  5. "Anti-Vivisection: Annual Meeting of the Warrington Branch". The Examiner. November 9, 1912. p. 6. (subscription required)
  6. "Vivisection a Licensed Evil". The Examiner. April 3, 1920. p. 10. (subscription required)
  7. "Vegetarianism as a Peace Promoter". Manchester Courier. December 15, 1914. p. 6. (subscription required)
  8. "Anti-Christmas". The Halifax Daily Guardian. December 21, 1910. p. 6. (subscription required)
  9. "Harvest Festivals Condemned". The Belfast News-Letter. September 18, 1907. p. 5. (subscription required)
  10. "Harvest Festivals". The Daily News. September 17, 1907. p. 4. (subscription required)
  11. "Service of Lies". The Morning Leader. September 17, 1907. p. 5. (subscription required)
  12. "The Vegetarian Society's 67th Anniversary Meetings". Manchester City News. December 12, 1914. p. 1. (subscription required)
  13. "Vegetarian Society". Manchester City News. December 12, 1914. p. 10. (subscription required)
  14. "Rev. Alfred Mansfield Mitchell, M.A. (1853-1936)". Order of the Golden Age. 2020. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020.
  15. "Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley". The Bromley Telegraph and Chislehurst Chronicle. March 17, 1906. p. 5. (subscription required)
  16. "Funeral of the Late Rev. A. M. Mitchell". Newton and Earlestown Guardian. February 28, 1926. p. 5. (subscription required)
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