词条 | Harry Mitchell (brewer) |
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| honorific_prefix = Captain | name = Henry Mitchell | honorific_suffix = Junior | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|09|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Smethwick, Staffordshire, England | death_date = 1894 (aged 32) | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = Harry Mitchell Park | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Managing Director | years_active = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | home_town = | television = | religion = | spouse = | children = | parents = Henry Mitchell (father) | relatives = }} Captain Henry Mitchell Junior, known as Harry Mitchell (1862-1894), was managing director of a brewery company co-founded by his father Henry Mitchell.[1][2] He was also superintendent of the fire brigade at the company's Cape Hill brewery,[1][3] and a Captain in the Smethwick Rifle Volunteers.[1] He founded a brewery football team, Mitchells St George's, later Birmingham St George's F.C..[4] Harry was born on 11 September 1862, in Smethwick (then part of Staffordshire), and died from typhoid at the age of just 32.[1] MemorialsIn 1897 Henry Mitchell purchased {{Convert|14|acre|ha}} of land, and in 1899 presented this to Smethwick Corporation to form what was named in his son's memory "Harry's Park" (now known as "Harry Mitchell Park").[1] Henry also built and donated Smethwick Drill Hall and the accompanying Sergeant Instructor's house.[1] A plaque from the drill hall, now in the Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre which replaced it, reads:[1] {{Quote|This drill hall for use of the Smethwick Volunteers and the surrounding recreation grounds called 'Harry's Park' were presented to the inhabitants of Smethwick in memory of Captain Henry Mitchell of the Smethwick Rifle Volunteers and Cape Hill Brewery Fire Brigade born at Smethwick September 11th 1862}} References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|url=https://www.slt-leisure.co.uk/filestore/history%20of%20hmlc.pdf|title=Harry Mitchell|publisher=Sandwell Leisure Trust|accessdate=29 November 2016}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Harry}}2. ^In 1898, the company merged with another, to become Mitchells & Butlers 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/story-mitchells-butlers-cape-hill-brigade/story-20147392-detail/story.html|title=The story of Mitchells & Butlers very own Cape Hill fire brigade|last=Shaw|first=Dan|date=21 June 2012|work=Black Country Bugle|accessdate=29 November 2016}} 4. ^{{Cite book| publisher = Xlibris Corporation| isbn = 978-1-4836-9531-0| last = Bradbury| first = Mike| title = Lost Teams of the Midlands| date = 2013-10-22}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}} 8 : 1862 births|1894 deaths|Mitchells & Butlers|People from Smethwick|Deaths from typhoid fever|British chief executives|British Army officers|British firefighters |
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