Reginald Mitchell-Innes

The Very Rev Reginald John Simpson Mitchell-Innes (1848-1930) was an eminent Episcopalian Priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The grave of the Very Rev Reginald Mitchell-Innes, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

Life

He was born in Berwickshire[1] on 19 June 1848[2] and educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond.

He then studied divinity at Christ Church, Oxford.[3] Ordained in 1876 he began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at Edinburgh Cathedral[4] after which he was Rector of Old St Paul's, Edinburgh[5] 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.[6] He is buried in the south-west section of the first northern extension to Dean Cemetery, facing the westmost path.

Notes
  1. "The Very Reverend Reginald John Simpson Mitchell-Innes, Am, EN30037". ambaile.org.uk.
  2. Birth date details
  3. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
  4. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
  5. ""The story of Old St. Paul's, Edinburgh" Ingram, M.E: Edinburgh, R.Grant, 1907
  6. Obituary-R. J. S. Mitchell-Innes The Times Saturday, 22 Nov 1930; pg. 14; Issue 45677; col B
Religious titles
Preceded by
Vernon Staley		 Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness
1911 – 1918		 Succeeded by
Alexander Augustin Donald MacKenzie


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