Reginald Mitchell-Innes

Reginald John Simpson Mitchell-Innes (1848-1930) was an Episcopalian priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The grave of 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]