[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.

[4] He was a member of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection and a vice-president of the Warrington Anti-Vivisection Society.

[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".

[15][16][17] He was a council member of Josiah Oldfield's fruitarian Lady Margaret Hospital in Bromley.

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