Bench Dedicated to Sheila and John Mitchell

Category

Library Item

Item no

43162

Title

Bench dedicated to Sheila and John Mitchell, in the Archivists' Garden between Old and New Register House, Edinburgh

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2016

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Sheila and John Mitchell did a lot of work in recording the pre-1955 inscriptions in Scottish churchyards. Their services to genealogy are commemorated by this bench in the Archivists' Garden at the National Records of Scotland.

The inscription says:

'John Fowler Mitchell C.I.E. 1886-1984
Sheila Macbeth Mitchell M.B.E. 1890-1994
Together they enriched family history by recording old gravestones.'

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