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Stephen Mitchell (manufacturer and philanthropist) (1789–1874), Scottish tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist, and founder of the Mitchell Library. Francis Thornton Barrett (1838–1919), first librarian of The Mitchell Library between 1877 & 1899, and city librarian for Glasgow between 1901 & 1914.
Meanwhile, back in Scotland, in Glasgow's Mitchell Library, Pitt devised its first open access department, the Music Room, which opened in 1930. [1] By 1935, Pitt was obliged to obtain further accommodation for the book stock of The Mitchell Library and to suggest that the Library be further extended.
Stephen Mitchell (19 September 1789 – 21 April 1874) was a Scottish tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Mitchell Library, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, one of the earliest public reference libraries in Europe.
Francis Thornton Barrett, born on 20 September 1838 at Liverpool, Lancashire, England, was the eldest of five children. [4] His father, the Rev. John Barrett (1812–1884), was a congregational minister, who entered into public religious work in the Liverpool Town Mission, later undertaking the charge of home mission stations and pastorates in a number of places including Little Lever, near ...
The Mitchell Wing upon completion housed library reading rooms, work areas and the Mitchell bequest. [4] [47] Mitchell and Dixson wings of the Mitchell Building, State Library of New South Wales. Nineteen years after the completion of the Mitchell Wing, more building took place on the site of the state library.
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He was an early partner in the Glasgow Tan Work, and in the Eastern Sugarhouse. He was Rector of the University of Glasgow three times between 1738 and 1750 and was the father of the young adventurer, George Bogle , [ 1 ] private secretary to Warren Hastings , who led the first attempted British embassy from India to Tibet and the Emperor of ...
Family circumstances meant that he could not pursue academic studies and he went to work first as a "soap boy" for a barber then as a presser in a garment factory. In his spare time he studied at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. He attended socialist camps but retained throughout his life a sceptical outlook about politically constructed utopias.