Sir William Foot Mitchell | |
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Member of Parliament for Dartford | |
In office January 1910 – December 1910 | |
Preceded by | James Rowlands |
Succeeded by | James Rowlands |
Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden | |
In office 15 November 1922 – 10 May 1929 | |
Preceded by | Sir Cecil Beck |
Succeeded by | Rab Butler |
Personal details | |
Born | William Foot Mitchell 26 June 1859 London, England, United Kingdom |
Died | 31 July 1947 Quendon, Essex, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Elizabeth Hannah Hadley |
Children | Lady Winifred Hadley Foot Mitchell |
Relatives | Algernon Winter Rose (son-in-law), Arthur William Mickle Ellis (son-in-law) |
Sir William Foot Mitchell JP (26 June 1859 – 31 July 1947)[1] was a Conservative Party politician in England.
Mitchell was Managing Director of Royal Dutch Shell plc, an Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas company, from 10 March 1903 to 31 December 1938,[2] including the year that Royal Dutch Petroleum and the Shell Transport and Trading Company came together to form a petroleum company in 1907.[3]
He spent much of his early career in the East, largely in Japan and China,[4] before settling in the UK, buying Quendon Hall, Quendon, in 1907.[5]
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