Rowland Mitchell

Son of the West India merchant and slave-owner David Mitchell. Brother of John [the older] (q.v.), Samuel (q.v.), Francis Henry and William junior, and a partner in W. R. & S Mitchell (q.v.) which failed in 1841-2.  Immediately prior to this bankruptcy his daughter Ellen Kate had on 26/07/1841 married Hon. Frederick Thomas Pelham, the second son of the Earl of Chichester.

1. Born West Indies.

2. Fiat of bankruptcy and loss of directorship of WIDCO; lost directorship of Guardian Fire & Life Assurance; certified Jan. 1842; appears to have resumed directorship at Guardian Fire & Life until death.

3. A banker of 57a Upper Wimpole Street when named as an executor in the will of Sarah Tierney Myers (q.v.).

4. Death registered Q4 1870 aged 86 at Marylebone: buried 'of Nottingham Place, St Marylebone', All Souls Kensal Green 'aged 85' 02/11/1870.

5. Will proved by brother Francis Henry Mitchell of 12 Upper Wimpole Street 19/04/1871 of Rowland Mitchell formerly of Lime Street but late of 7 Nottingham Place who died 27/10/1870, effects under £300.

6. NB  Francis Henry Mitchell (c. 1795-1891) late of 12 Upper Wimpole Street who died 02/08/1891 left £203,998 3s 4d: will proven 05/10/1891 by Frank Johnstone Mitchell of Llanfrechfa Grange Newport Mon.; William Rowland Mitchell of Salthrop Wroughton Wilts.; Col. Herbert Leonard Mitchell of 17A Onslow Gardens; Clayton Mitchell of West Highlands near Winchester Commander RN and Arthur Charles Mitchell of Cottles Melksham Wilts., gentleman, the sons the executors.

Lambert, Andrew. 2004 "Pelham, Frederick Thomas (1808–1861), naval officer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 3 May. 2019. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-21787.

1. 1861 census online (which shows him living at Nottingham Place Director Guardian Office with daughter Mary Ann Steegen Baroness aged 49 and grandson Alexander, clerk in the bank of England.

2. London Gazette, Issue 20036, 09/11/1841, p. 19; London Gazette, Issue 20049, 07/12/1841, pp. 3-4; London Gazette, Issue 20060, 14/01/1842, p. 25; London Gazette, Issue 23684, 02/12/1870, p. 5631.

3. PROB 11/1990.

4. FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]. Children from Ancestry.com, London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database online] (Ellen Kate's baptism is transcribed as 1816 but the underlying record shows her baptism as 06/08/1815).

5. National Probate Calendar 1871.

6. National Probate Calendar 1891.