Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet
Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA (5 December 1846 – 15 November 1918) was the Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1897 to 1900.
He was born in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, the youngest son of Andrew Thomson, timber merchant, and Janet Mitchell. He was a maternal grandson of William Mitchell (Scottish entrepreneur) (1781–1854). He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution.
He entered local politics in 1882 standing unsuccessfully for a council seat in Edinburgh. He finally gained a seat in 1890. He served on the city’s Gas, Education and Water Commissions. He was the chairman on the Northhill Soup Kitchen committee in Edinburgh. He was a trustee and chairman for the George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh. He was Provost of Edinburgh (1897–1900) and a JP for Peebleshire. He was also a representative for Edinburgh to the General Council of the Church of Scotland. He served on the committee of the Edinburgh branch of the Navy league in the 1900s. He was not a free trader in that he was chairman of the Scottish Trade Protection Society (1890s) and later the Tariff Reform League (1900s).
He served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1897 to 1900. During this period he also served as Honorary President of George Heriots Former Pupils Golf Club.
He started out a partner in the family timber business and later held directorships at various times in a range of Scottish-based companies (the Bank of Scotland, the Scottish Widow’s Fund Life Assurance Society, the British Investment Trust Company Arizona Trusts and Mortgage Company, the Scottish Reversionary Company Ltd.; the Caledonian Railway and the London Advisory Committee of the Canada Steamship Line Limited (1917). By 1916 he had acquired over 1,900 acres (7.7 km2) of land including an estate in Peeblesshire called Polmood which he sold in 1917. He also owned land in Kincardineshire.
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