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'''Thomas Alexander Mitchell''' (1812 – 16 March 1875)<ref>{{rayment-hc|b|5|date=March 2012}}</ref> was an English [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1841 to 1875.

Mitchell was a merchant in the City of London. He was a partner in the firm of Mitchell, Yeames and Co, a member of the committee of management of Lloyds Shipping Register and chairman of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.<ref name=Debrett>[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1870londuoft#page/198/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870]</ref>

At the [[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841 general election]], Mitchell was elected as one of the two [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]] (MPs) for [[Bridport (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridport]].<ref name="craig1832-1885">{{cite book
 |last=Craig
 |first=F. W. S.
 |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig
 |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885
 |origyear=1977
 |edition= 2nd
 |year=1989
 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
 |location=Chichester
 |isbn= 0-900178-26-4
 |pages=63–4
}}</ref>
He held the seat until his death 1875,<ref name="craig1832-1885" /> aged 63.

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 | before  = [[Swynfen Jervis]]
 | before2 = [[Henry Warburton]]
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 | title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Bridport (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridport]]
 | years = [[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841]] – [[1875 Bridport by-election|1875]]
 | with  = [[Henry Warburton]] to Sept 1841
 | with2 = [[Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington|Alexander Baillie-Cochrane]]  Sept 1841 – 1846
 | with3 = [[John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly|John Romilly]] 1846–47
 | with4 = [[Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington|Alexander Baillie-Cochrane]] 1847–52
 | with5 = [[John Patrick Murrough]] 1852–57
 | with6 = [[Kirkman Hodgson]] 1857–68
 | with7 = (only 1 seat from 1868)
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