Patrick Reynolds Mitchell KCVOBurke’s peerage (17 March 1930 – 23 January 2020) was an English Anglican priest.
Life Patrick Mitchell was born on 17 March 1930Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black and educated at Eton, Merton College, Oxford, and Wells Theological College. Ordained in 1955 Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St. Mark's Church, MansfieldChurch web-site following which he was Priest-Vicar of Wells Cathedral.
Mitchell would go on to hold incumbencies in Milton, Portsmouth and Frome Selwood, Somerset before being appointed Dean of Wells in 1973,Debrett's People of Today: Ed Ellis, P (1992, London, Debrett's) ) a position he held for 16 years; during his deanship he oversaw a major restoration of the cathedral.The Very Reverend Patrick Mitchell, popular Dean of Wells and then of Windsor who was a trusted adviser to the Queen on Church affairs – obituary In 1981, he was appointed to the Cathedrals Advisory Commission for England. In 1989, he became Dean of Windsor until his retirement eight years later, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).
He died in January 2020 at the age of 89.
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