3-082-488 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. J. T. W. Mitchell, 1895. 'The co-operative movement has lost in Mr. J. T. W. Mitchell one of its men of light and leading. His name was known by hundreds of thousands to whom his death has meant a very real bereavement. Mr. J. T. W. Mitchell was a native of Rochdale, a centre which has given birth to so many distinguished co-operators. For twenty-one years he had been chairman of the Co-operative Wholesale Society, an arduous work for which he would receive no salary. The annual business of this great society amounted to ten millions sterling, so that it required a clear brain and an extraordinary power of organisation to preside over its management. Mr. Mitchell was a "captain of industry," whose labours it would be difficult to overrate. He had recently declined a seat on the board of directors of the Manchester Ship Canal, considering that his hands were too full to permit of this addition to the claims upon his time. He was born on Oct. 18, 1828, and died on March 16'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.