John Mitchell (Hull politician)

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John Mitchell ({{circa|1781}} – 29 August 1859){{Rayment-hc|h|4|date=March 2012}} was an English Tory politician.

Life

He was the son of David Mitchell, a Jamaica planter, and nephew of William Mitchell, a plantation owner and attorney there, who was also a Westminster politician.{{cite web |title=William 'King' Mitchell, 1742–1823, Legacies of British Slavery |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146633329 |website=www.ucl.ac.uk}} He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1803, and was called to the bar in 1808.{{alox2|title=Mitchell, John (3)}}[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/mitchell-john-1781-1859 historyofparliamentonline.org, Mitchell, John (?1781-1859), of Richmond, Surr.]

Mitchell was elected at the 1818 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston-upon-Hull, and held the seat until the 1826 general election,

when he did not contest Hull.{{cite book

|last=Stooks Smith

|first=Henry.

|editor=Craig, F. W. S.

|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig

|title=The Parliaments of England

|orig-date=1844-1850

|edition=2nd

|year=1973

|publisher=Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn=0-900178-13-2

|page=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/405 405]

}}

References

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| title = Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull

| years = 18181826

| with = James Graham 1818–1820

| with2 = Daniel Sykes from 1820

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| after = John Augustus O'Neill

| after2 = Daniel Sykes

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Category:1780s births

Category:1859 deaths

Category:Tory MPs (pre-1834)

Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies

Category:UK MPs 1818–1820

Category:UK MPs 1820–1826

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