George Arthur Mitchell
Sir George Arthur Mitchell FRSE MIME was a Scottish mining engineer and company director. He was Director of both the Clydesdale Bank and Midland Bank and of several collieries. He endowed the Mitchell Lectures at Glasgow University.Life
He was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, in 1860 the son of Alexander Moncrieff Mitchell, a colliery owner, and his wife Elizabeth Mitchell, sister of Sir Arthur Mitchell. He studied Science and engineering at Glasgow University graduating MA.
In 1897 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley and Sir Arthur Mitchell. He was knighted by King George V in 1935.
In 1910 he was living in a new and exclusive property at 9 Lowther Terrace in Kelvinside in Glasgow and was listed as Director of the Flemington Coal Company. The building was designed by his architect cousin Sydney Mitchell in 1906.
He died at Drumquhassle House near Drymen on 16 February 1948. He did not marry and had no children. He was Deacon of the Hammermen of Glasgow in 1922.Positions of Note
