Alfred Mansfield Mitchell

The Reverend
Alfred Mansfield Mitchell
Portrait from obituary
Born1853
Dublin, Ireland
Died18 February 1936 (aged 83)
Burtonwood, England
Resting placeBurtonwood Cemetery
EducationTrinity College Dublin (B.A., 1879; M.A., 1884)
Occupation(s)Clergyman, activist
Spouse
Janet Elizabeth Louisa Hammond
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(m. 1887)​
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Alfred Mansfield Mitchell (1853 – 18 February 1936) was an Irish clergyman and activist. He advocated for anti-vivisection, vegetarianism, pacifism, and against poverty. He was the longest serving vicar of St Michael's Anglican Church in Burtonwood.[1]

Biography

Career

Mitchell was born in Dublin. He was ordained in 1879 and became a priest the following year.[2] Mitchell obtained his B.A. from Trinity College in 1879 and M.A. in 1884.[3] He was a curate at Clonmel before moving to England, where he held curacies at Warrington, Kentish Town, and Clerkenwell.[2] Mitchell was appointed vicar at St Michael's Anglican Church in Burtonwood in 1891, a position he held for 45 years.[1][2] His parish magazine Excelsior was widely read.[2]

Mitchell was an alderman of Lancashire County Council, a member of Burtonwood Parish Council and chairman of the Warrington County Elementary Education Committee.[2][4] He was a pacifist and campaigned to help the poor.[4] Mitchell also served as president of the People's League of Medical Freedom.[5]

Mitchell was an anti-vivisectionist and opposed the use of animals in filmmaking.[2][6] He argued that filmmakers were cruel to animals and planned to get a Bill passed through Parliament which would stop trained animals appearing in films.[4] He was a member of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection and a vice-president of the Warrington Anti-Vivisection Society.[7][8]

Vegetarianism

Mitchell was a vegetarian, non-smoker and teetotaller.[2][4] He was disappointed that there was a large amount of antagonism against vegetarianism in the Church.[9] He argued that meat dishes at Christmas festivals were non-Christian, stating that they are a "debasing and degrading orgie, a festival of blood, a festival of cruelty".[10] In 1907, he commented that "vegetarians or food reformers are the only consistent worshippers and the flesh-eater is convicted of inconsistency and falsehood".[11] Mitchell stated that meat-eaters who decorated churches for the harvest festival were making the festival a service of lies and questioned why they didn't also use "trophies of the butcher's art".[12] In 1910, he published the pamphlet "The Church and Food Reform".[13] He condemned such festivals as "uric-acid festivals" for meat-eaters.[14]

Mitchell was a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society, from 1922, and a speaker at its meetings.[15][16][17] He was a council member of Josiah Oldfield's fruitarian Lady Margaret Hospital in Bromley.[18] He was also a council member of the Order of the Golden Age[19] and wrote for its journal, The Herald of the Golden Age.[20]

Personal life and death

Mitchell in his later years

On 8 September 1887, Mitchell married Janet Elizabeth Louisa, the daughter of the solicitor William Hammond of London, at Stratford-sub-Castle, Salisbury.[21]

Mitchell died in Burtonwood on 18 February 1936, aged 83.[2] He was buried at Burtonwood Cemetery.[1][22]

Selected publications

  • "I claim greater Health, Fitness, and Happiness" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 5 (12): 185–186. 1900.
  • Humane Education: A Plea for a Humane and Ethical System of Elementary Education. 1906.[23]
  • "The Christmas Altar" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 40 (5): 88–89. 1907.
  • "Christmas Cruelties". Burton Wood Parish Magazine. December 1909.
  • "What Shall We Eat?". Burton Wood Parish Magazine.
  • "The Church and Food Reform". The Herald of the Golden Age. April 1910.

References

  1. ^ a b c "History and heritage of our cemeteries". Warrington Borough Council. 2020. Archived from the original on 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "A Notable Cleric: Death of Rev. A. M. Mitchell of Burtonwood". Liverpool Echo. 18 February 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Mitchell, Alfred Mansfield". Crockford's Clerical Directory. 1932. p. 901.
  4. ^ a b c d "Death of Burtonwood Vicar: Champion of the Poor". Newton and Earlestown Guardian. 21 February 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  5. ^ Brown, P. S. (January 1991). "Medically qualified naturopaths and the General Medical Council" (PDF). Medical History. 35 (1): 50–77. doi:10.1017/S0025727300053126. ISSN 0025-7273. PMC 1036269. PMID 2008122.
  6. ^ "A Vicar on Vivisection". Liverpool Daily Post. 23 December 1920. p. 3. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Anti-Vivisection: Annual Meeting of the Warrington Branch". The Examiner. 9 November 1912. p. 6. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Vivisection a Licensed Evil". The Examiner. 3 April 1920. p. 10. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Vegetarianism as a Peace Promoter". Manchester Courier. 15 December 1914. p. 6. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  10. ^ "Anti-Christmas". The Halifax Daily Guardian. 21 December 1910. p. 6. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Harvest Festivals Condemned". The Belfast News Letter. 18 September 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Harvest Festivals". The Daily News. 17 September 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  13. ^ "Publications". The Order of the Golden Age. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Service of Lies". The Morning Leader. 17 September 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  15. ^ "The Vegetarian Society's 67th Anniversary Meetings". Manchester City News. 12 December 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  16. ^ "Vegetarian Society". Manchester City News. 12 December 1914. p. 10. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  17. ^ "Rev. Alfred Mansfield Mitchell, M.A. (1853-1936)". Order of the Golden Age. 2020. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020.
  18. ^ "Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley". The Bromley Telegraph and Chislehurst Chronicle. 17 March 1906. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  19. ^ "The Order of the Golden Age" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. XIV (7): 185. July 1911 – via Internet Archive.
  20. ^ "The Christmas Altar" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 40 (5): 88–89. 1907.
  21. ^ "Marriages". Belfast News Letter. 13 September 1887. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  22. ^ "Funeral of the Late Rev. A. M. Mitchell". Newton and Earlestown Guardian. 28 February 1926. p. 5. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  23. ^ Mitchell, Alfred Mansfield (1906). Humane education. A plea for a humane and ethical system of elementary education. London: Fifield. OCLC 81806245.

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