John Mitchinson

Who was John Mitchinson?

The Rt Rev John Mitchinson, DD was an English teacher and Anglican priest who was Bishop of Barbados and later served as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.

He was born in Durham on 23 September 1833 and educated at Durham School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He was an Assistant Master at Merchant Taylors’ then Headmaster of the King's School, Canterbury from 1859 to 1873. Ordained in 1860 he became Bishop of Barbados and the Windward Islands in 1873, holding the post for 8 years. From 1891 to 1899 he was Rector of Sibstone, then Archdeacon of Leicester, 1886–99. In that year he returned to his former college where he remained until his death on 25 September 1918