Name Robert Mitchell, Role Member of Parliament | Died April 25, 1938 Party Liberal Party | |
Education Perth Academy, University of St Andrews | ||
Robert MacGregor Mitchell (1875 – 25 April 1938) was a Scottish lawyer and judge, Liberal Member of Parliament and University Rector.
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Early life
Mitchell was the son of Robert Mitchell, a solicitor from Perth. He was educated at Perth Academy, and at the universities of University of St Andrews, where graduated with an MA in 1895. He then studied law at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1895 with an LLB.
Career
He practised as a solicitor in Perth for some years and was called to the Scottish Bar in 1914. He became a King's Counsel in 1924.
He was elected Liberal MP for Perth at the 1923 general election in a straight fight against the Conservative incumbent Noel Skelton but lost it back in 1924. He did not stand for Parliament again.
In October 1934, he was appointed as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, succeeding Lord St Vigeans, who had resigned. He took the judicial title of the Lord Macgregor Mitchell, and held the post until his death in 1938.