Robert Mitchell (priest)


The Very Rev Robert Andrew Mitchell was Dean of Lincoln from 1930 to 1949. Born in 1870, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and ordained in 1893. His first post was as a curate at St Mary-at-the-Walls, Colchester, after which he was Vicar of Highfield, Hampshire then of St. Michael's Church, Chester Square, before his appointment to the Deanery.