Charles Mitchell (governor)

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Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell, G.C.M.G. (1836 - December 7, 1899) was a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Marines, before joining the Colonial Service, in which he served in British Honduras, British Guiana, Natal. He then served as Governor of Fiji, Natal and Zululand, and the Straits Settlements.

The son of Colonel Hugh Mitchell, R.M., he attended the Royal Naval School and joined the Royal Marines in 1852. He served with them in the Baltic campaigns from 1854-1856. He retired from the marines in 1878.

Mitchell's first wife Fanny Rice died in 1885. He remarried to Eliza Weldon.

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• Obituary, The Times, Friday, Dec 08, 1899; pg. 6

Preceded by Sir William Des Vœux	Governor of Fiji 1887–1888	Succeeded by Sir John Thurston
Preceded by William Edward Maxwell (acting)	Governor of the Straits Settlements 1894–1899	Succeeded by James Alexander Sweetenham (acting)