page_title: Stephen Mitchell (Tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist)
section_title: Stephen Mitchell & Son
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen Mitchell (Tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist) / Stephen Mitchell & Son
caption_attribution_description: Stephen Mitchell was the founder of the great Glasgow library that bears his name. A successful tobacco manufacturer, his company was eventually incorporated into the Imperial Tobacco Company. The commemorative portrait bust by sculptor, John Mossman, is located at North Street in the entrance lobby of the Library and seems a very modest tribute for such a considerable benefactor. The library contains almost 1.5m volumes and is open to the public free of charge.
context_page_description: Stephen Mitchell, tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist, was the founder of the Mitchell Library, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, one of the earliest public reference libraries in Europe. Succeeding his father in business, Mitchell was Director of Stephen Mitchell & Son for approximately 38 years, and was a significant figure in 19th-century tobacco manufacturing, then one of the largest industries in the West of Scotland.
context_section_description: After Stephen Mitchell’s death, his brother Nelson (aka Neilson) Mitchell took over the business; being succeeded, in turn, by Nelson's son, also named Stephen Mitchell (1847-1920) of Boquhan, Stirlingshire. 
  The Imperial Tobacco Company (Great Britain and Ireland) Ltd. was created in December 1901 through the amalgamation of 13 British tobacco and cigarette manufacturing companies which were being threatened by competition from the American Tobacco Company: initially W. D. & H. O. Wills of Bristol merged with Stephen Mitchell & Son and, subsequently, other smaller companies joined in the amalgamation.  However, Stephen Mitchell & Son continued to trade under its own name and retained responsibility for its own manufacturing and selling until well into the 20th century.
caption: Commemorative portrait bust of Stephen Mitchell (1789-1874), completed in 1881, at North Street interior of Mitchell Library, by John Mossman (1817-1890)
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