Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell is a Scottish writer and producer.

This article is about the writer. For the Fijian sports official and IOC member, see Robin E. Mitchell.

Career

Mitchell co-founded Edinburgh's Cadies & Witchery Tours[1] in 1984 and the film production company Cadies Productions Ltd[2] in 2004. The name 'Cadies' was taken from the 18th-century Edinburgh 'Caddies'. The Scottish actor Kevin McKidd worked at The Cadies and Witchery Tours in Edinburgh while studying drama at Queen Margaret University.[3][4]

In May 1985, Mitchell and Macphail were Lothian Region winners of the Shell LiveWIRE Young Business Competition. He featured in the LiveWIRE magazine in 2012.[5]

In August 1988, Mitchell bought at auction a calling card case made out of skin taken from the back of the left hand of the infamous bodysnatcher William Burke (of Burke and Hare fame). The calling card case for many years was loaned to the Police Information Centre in Edinburgh's Royal Mile. It is now displayed in The Cadies & Witchery Tours shop (aka The William Burke Museum) in Edinburgh's West Bow.[6]

Calling Card Case made out of the skin of ‘bodysnatcher’ William Burke

Mitchell founded Scottish political party Adam Lyal's Witchery Tour Party in 1999.[7] The "publicity-seeking"[8] party stood candidates in the Lothian Region for the Scottish Parliament elections, appearing as a highwayman named Adam Lyal and pledging to "Wear clothes and white make-up to impersonate a highwayman hanged in Scotland in 1811 at all sittings of Parliament."[9][10][11] In 1999, Mitchell received 1184 votes.[12] In 2003, Robin Bankhead received 964 votes and in 2007, Euan MacInnes[13][14] received 867 votes. The party deregistered in 2009.

References
  1. "The '˜world's smallest museum' set to open in Edinburgh". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com.
  2. "CADIES PRODUCTIONS LIMITED - Officers (free information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
  3. "Trainspotting and Grey's Anatomy star Kevin McKidd recalls being a 'jumperooter' in Edinburgh before hitting the big time in Hollywood". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com.
  4. "Robin Mitchell of Edinburgh's original ghost tour reveals the similarities between dealing with the Capital's plague outbreaks of the 1600s and tackling the Covid-19 pandemic in the city". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com.
  5. "Home - Shell LiveWIRE UK". www.Shell-Livewire.org. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  6. "Scotland home to the '˜world's smallest museum'". www.carlukegazette.co.uk.
  7. "That entrepreneurial spirit". The Glasgow Herald. 21 September 1999.
  8. Denver, David (21 April 2007). "Democracy's feast ... or farce?". The Herald. Scotland. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  9. "Telegraph 10 - more imaginative campaign pledges". Daily Telegraph. 3 May 2005. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  10. "Adam Lyal Fan Club - Lyal In The Press". www.adamlyal.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  11. "Parties and Issues - Other parties". BBC News. 29 April 1999. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  12. "Aspect 1999: Witchery Tour Party - Electoral region results and literature". gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  13. ""Soul" Candidate for Holyrood Elections". The Cadies & Witchery Tours. 12 April 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  14. Shiels, Maggie (30 April 2007). "Campaign goes under the spotlight". BBC Scotland. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
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