Family and Education
b. 15 Apr. 1708, o. s. of Rev. William Mitchell, minister of St. Giles and King’s chaplain, by his 1st w. Margaret, da. of Sir Hugh Cunningham, provost of Edinburgh, wid. of James Steuart, town clerk of Edinburgh. educ. Edinburgh Univ.; Leyden 1730-1; Paris 1731-2; Italy 1732-5; M. Temple 1734, called 1738; adv. 1736. m. 22 Ju1y 1722, his 2nd cos. Barbara, da. and h. of Thomas Mitchell of Thainston, 1da. (d.1729). suc. fa. 1727; served h. to Thainston in right of his da. 1741. K.B. 13 Dec. 1765.
Offices Held
Under-sec. for Scotland 1742 – 46; commissary in Brussels for negotiating a commercial agreement with Austria and the Netherlands 1752 – 55; envoy to Prussia 1756 – June 1765, Dec. 1765 – d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Thainston, Aberdeen.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Web Title
MITCHELL, Andrew (1708-71)
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Oxford 1644
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