- 1843 – Born Inverness
- Educated Inverness Academy
- 1861 – Merchiston Castle University of Edinburgh B.A.
- 1862 – M.A.
- 1866 – Trinity College Cambridge B.A.
- 1868 – Ordained Kirkmichael, Dumfries
- 1875 – Translated Paisley Abbey
- 1876 – 22nd November Married Agnes Dobie
- 1878 – Translated West St Nicholas
- 1888 – Chaplain to Queen Victoria until 1901
- 1895 – Demitted Office
- 1898 – Convener of General Assembly’s Colonial Committee until 1909
- 1901 – Chaplain to King Edward VII until 1910
- 1907 – Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
- 1914 – Died
Memorial Plaque for Very Rev Dr. James Robert Mitford Mitchell, 19th Patron to the Seven Incorporated Trades, on the South wall of the West Kirk of St Nicholas.