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Obituary: Archie Mitchell


Trading standards lost a respected and honourable colleague in December 2021

Richard Young

Posted 22 February 2022 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National


UPDATES: Colleagues remember Archibald Mackenzie Mitchell as a respected Scottish trading standards leader, metrologist and mentor whose five-decade career spanned local government, professional service and lasting friendships across the Institute.

Many warm tributes have been paid by those who knew or worked with Archibald Mackenzie Mitchell, who passed away on 24 December, 2021.

Archie left behind fond and happy memories, being described by colleagues as ‘one of the good guys’. He was well liked and respected by his colleagues during a trading standards career spanning five decades. He is remembered as a lovely, fine, honourable a...

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