Hugh Henry Mitchell, MP

of Glasnevin and Merrion Castle, MP for Ballyshannon 1766-1768, MP for Enniskillen in 1771

Mr. Mitchell was a banker in Dublin. His name also appears in the Liber Munerum as Commissioner of Barracks in 1772 and 1776. His grandfather had married Jane, daughter of Robert Henry, a Presbyterian Minister, widow of a Mr. Finlay, and sister of Hugh Henry, Esq., M.P. for Newtown Limavady in 1713, and Antrim Borough from 1727-43. His father, Henry Mitchell, of Glasnevin, Co. Dublin, was also a banker, and M.P. for Castlebar, 1747-61, and for Bannow 1761-8. He died 2nd August, 1768, leaving by his wife Mary, besides four daughters, Hugh Henry (the subject of this memoir), of Glasnevin and Merrion Castle; M.P. for Ballyshannon 1766-8, and for Enniskillen in 1771. Mr. Mitchell's will (dated 9th Sept., 1812, codicil 14th Jan., 1818), was proved 27th April, 1830. His eldest son, Hugh Henry, Colonel of the 26th Foot, married 17th July, 1804, Lady Harriet Somerset (who died 1st June, 1865), youngest daughter of Henry, 5th Duke of Beaufort, K.G., and had a son Hugh, and two daughters.[1] On the 8th March, 1766, a new writ was issued for Ballyshannon in the room of John Gustavus Handcock, Esq., deceased, and Hugh Heniy Mitchell was returned. Again on the 26th February, 1771, a warrant for a new writ was ordered for Enniskillen in place of Bernard Smith Ward, deceased, and Mr. Mitchell was returned. On the 6th February, 1772, four several orders were made by the House of Commons, that the proper officer should lay before the House particular accounts of the expenditure of sums of money paid to Hugh Henry Mitchell, esq., in 1769 and 1770, for putting in order the Castle of Dublin, and the Parliament House, and for repairs and works at the Castle, and at Leixlip. This was done, and the accounts appear in the Appendix for 1772, on pp. cccclxi.-ii.-iii. Mr. Mitchell had four sisters, viz. : — Mary (d. 1 May, 1759), m. 1 Jan. 1756, MacCarrel King, Margaret, m. Robert King. Anne, m. Aug. 1766, Maurice Coppinger, M.P., Sergeant-at-Law. Catherine, m. Aug. 1766, the Rt. Hon. John Monck Mason, M.P.

Source: Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885, page 347-348