Patrick Mitchell (priest)
{{Short description|English Anglican priest (1930–2020)}}
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Patrick Reynolds Mitchell KCVO[http://www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=MITCHELLPATRICK Burke’s peerage] (17 March 1930 – 23 January 2020) was an English Anglican priest.
Life
Patrick Mitchell was born on 17 March 1930Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} and educated at Eton, Merton College, Oxford.,{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=406}} and Wells Theological College. Ordained in 1955 Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing {{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}} he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St. Mark's Church, Mansfield[http://www.stmarksmansfield.org.uk/ Church web-site] following which he was Priest-Vicar of Wells Cathedral.
Mitchell would go on to hold incumbencies in Milton, Portsmouth and Frome Selwood, Somerset before being appointed Dean of Wells in 1973,Debrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis, P (1992, London, Debrett's) {{ISBN|1-870520-09-2}}) a position he held for 16 years; during his deanship he oversaw a major restoration of the cathedral.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/27/reverend-patrick-mitchell-popular-dean-wells-windsor-trusted/ The Very Reverend Patrick Mitchell, popular Dean of Wells and then of Windsor who was a trusted adviser to the Queen on Church affairs – obituary] In 1981, he was appointed to the Cathedrals Advisory Commission for England. In 1989, he became Dean of Windsor until his retirement eight years later, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).{{London Gazette|issue=55247|page=9719|date=8 September 1998}}
He died in January 2020 at the age of 89.{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/13-march/gazette/obituaries/obituary-the-very-revd-patrick-mitchel|title = Obituary: The Very Revd Patrick Mitchel}}
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Category:People educated at Eton College