Background
MITCHELL, Harry was born in 1847. Son of late B. Mitchell of Crow Hall, Norfolk.
MITCHELL, Harry was born in 1847. Son of late B. Mitchell of Crow Hall, Norfolk.
Studied at Uppingham School. Emmanuel College Cambridge. Master of Arts.
Curate of Buxton, 1870-1873. Bamack, 1873-1875; Vicar of Peak Forest, 1875-1881. Pemberton, 1881-S6; championed the cause of the Pit Brow Women, and presented twenty-four of them at the Home Office, 1887.
Established Avith T. P. Hewitt, the Lancashire Watch Company at Prescot, 1893. Chairman of Prescot Grammar, Church, and Council Schools, 1887- 1909. Member of Archbishop’s Church Finance Committee, 1909-1910. Vicar of Prescot since 1886; Rural Dean of Prescot, 1891 : Honourable Canon of Liverpool, 1893.
Spouse 1875, Frances (d. 1904),daughter of late Dr. Shipton of Buxton.