Arthur Mitchell (1826–1909)

Scottish psychiatrist and antiquary. Studied medicine in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna; MD, Aberdeen, 1850. Deputy commissioner in lunacy for Scotland, 1857–70; commissioner, 1870–95. Member of the English commission on criminal lunacy, 1880–1; departmental committee on criminal lunatics in Ireland, 1885. Chairman of the Irish commission on lunacy administration, 1888–91. Lecturer on insanity, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1869–72. Advocated boarding out the insane in The insane in private dwellings (1864). Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland from 1861; Rhind Lecturer, 1876. A founder of the Scottish History Society. Knighted, 1887.