William Mitchell
Male, Deceased Person
1781 – 1854
Who was William Mitchell?
William Mitchell was a Scottish entrepreneur. He was born in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, the second son of Alexander Mitchell and Janet Barrowman.
He was a co-founder of the Alloa Coal Company later run by his sons Andrew and Alexander. He was an important investor in the Leith shipping line William Thomson and Co; better known as the Ben Line. In the 1840s, the Ben Line was in the North Atlantic trade, taking Aloa coal to Canada and returning with timber.
His more famous grandsons include the British civil servant in India John Ontario Miller, the founder of the Luscar Coal Company Colonel Alexander Mitchell (Scottish entrepreneur), Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson a Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the noted Scottish Humanities scholar William Mitchell Ramsay.
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