John Mitchinson (bishop)
John Mitchinson was a British teacher and Anglican priest who was Bishop of Barbados and later served as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.Education
He was born in Durham on 23 September 1833 and educated at Durham School and Pembroke College, Oxford.Career
He was an Assistant Master at Merchant Taylors’ then Headmaster of the King's School, Canterbury from 1859 to 1873. Ordained in 1860 he became Bishop of Barbados in 1873, holding the post for eight years, but becoming known as Bishop of Barbados and the Windward Islands from 1877, when he created the separate Diocese of the Windward Islands but remained as bishop over that diocese too. After leaving Barbados, his associations with the area continued: he served as coadjutor bishop for Walrond Jackson, Bishop of Antigua, visiting those islands on Jackson's behalf because he was forced to remain in England in illness. From July 18811899 he was Rector of Sibstone; Assistant Bishop of Peterborough, August 1881November 1900 ; and Archdeacon of Leicester, 1886–1899. During the 1885 vacancy in the See of Manchester, he served as the Archbishop of York's episcopal commissary in that diocese — effectively its acting diocesan bishop. In 1899 he returned to his former college as Master, where he remained until his death on 25 September 1918. He had become a Doctor of Divinity.
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1899-1912 and was Chairman of the Governors from 1900–1908.
