Arthur Mitchell
1826–1909
Scottish psychiatrist and antiquary. Studied medicine in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna; MD, Aberdeen, 1850. Deputy commissioner in lunacy for Scotland, 1857–70; commissioner, 1870–95. Member of the English commission on criminal lunacy, 1880–1; departmental committee on criminal lunatics in Ireland, 1885. Chairman of the Irish commission on lunacy administration, 1888–91. Lecturer on insanity, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1869–72. Advocated boarding out the insane in The insane in private dwellings (1864). Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland from 1861; Rhind Lecturer, 1876. A founder of the Scottish History Society. Knighted, 1887.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
