Reginald Mitchell-Innes


The Very Rev Reginald John Simpson Mitchell-Innes was an eminent Episcopalian Priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life

He was born in Berwickshire on 19 June 1848 and educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond.
He then studied divinity at Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained in 1876 he began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at Edinburgh Cathedral after which he was Rector of Old St Paul's, Edinburgh and then Christ Church, Glasgow before becoming Provost of Inverness Cathedral in 1911, a post he was to hold for 7 years.
He died in Edinburgh after a period of ill-health on 20 November 1930. He is buried in the south-west section of the first northern extension to Dean Cemetery, facing the westmost path.