Hugh Henry Mitchell (politician)

Hugh Henry Mitchell (c. 1741 – April 1830), of Glasnevin and Merrion Castle, was an Irish politician and banker.

[1] His father was the senior partner in the bank of Mitchell and Macarell, and MP for Castlebar and Bannow.

[1] His father was the only son of merchant Hugh Mitchell of London, and Jane (née Henry) Finlay.

His grandmother, a widow of a Mr. Finlay, was the daughter of Robert Henry, a Presbyterian Minister, and sister to Hugh Henry, MP for Newtown Limavady and Antrim Borough,[4] and banker whose firm, Hugh Henry & Co., was the predecessor to his father's firm, Mitchell and Macarell).

[1] He was a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Ballyshannon between 1766 and 1768 and for Enniskillen in 1771.