Stanley Robert Mitchell (12 February 1881 – 22 March 1963) was an Australian commercial metallurgist as well as an amateur mineralogist and ethnologist.
His father, James Mitchell, was a commercial traveller and amateur mineralogist.
From 1898 he was employed as a metallurgist and industrial chemist in a Footscray smelting works.
[2] In 1906 Mitchell married Beatrice Anna Pay, a music teacher, with whom he was to have two sons and two daughters.
[1] Mitchell accumulated major collections of rocks, minerals and Aboriginal artefacts and was heavily involved in the activities of field naturalists’ clubs.