Isabel "Ida" Deane Mitchell (1879 – 23 March 1917) was an Irish Presbyterian medical missionary in China.
Her mother was from Scotland, moving to Belfast when her father became a ruling elder in Elmwood Presbyterian church.
[1] Mitchell entered Queen Margaret University at age 18, studying there for six years and funded by donations from her father's parish.
[1][3] Mitchell set sail for China in the autumn of 1905 with Sara MacWilliams and Reverend F.W.S O’Neill,[4] to take up a post as missionary for the Women's Association of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
A service was held in tribute to her on 26 March 1917, and she was buried in the Russian cemetery in Kurin, near to where her sister was living as a missionary wife.
[1][3] A local Christian leader, Elder Shang, spoke at her funeral service stating that "Our doctor has given her life for us.