Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell (11 May 1875 – 25 April 1938) was a Scottish lawyer and judge,

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Member of Parliament and University Rector.

Early life

Mitchell was the son of Mary Rollo (1846–1933) and her husband, Robert Mitchell (1842–1892), a

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from

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. He was educated at

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. He studied at the

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, from which he graduated with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1895. He then studied law at the

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, graduating in 1895 with a

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(LLB) degree.

Career

He practised as a solicitor in Perth for some years and was called to the Scottish Bar in 1914. He became a

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in 1924. He was elected Liberal MP for

at the 1923 general election in a straight fight against the

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incumbent

Noel Skelton Archibald Noel Skelton (1 July 1880 – 22 November 1935) was a Scottish Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual. Early life The son of Sir John Skelton KCB LLD, Skelton was born on 1 July 1880 at Hermitage of Braid in Edinburg ...

but lost it back in

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. He did not stand for Parliament again. In October 1934, he was appointed as Chairman of the

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, succeeding Lord St Vigeans, who had resigned. He took the judicial title Lord Macgregor Mitchell,''Who was Who'', OUP 2007 and held the post until his death in 1938. He is buried with his parents near the summit of

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in north Perth.

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