Edwin Mitchelson

Sir Edwin Mitchelson (7 April 1846 – 11 April 1934) was a New Zealand politician and timber merchant.

Member of Parliament

Mitchelson was born in Auckland in a cottage on Queen Street in the mid 1840s. He developed business interests in timber and kauri gum, shipbuilding, and horse racing and breeding. chairman of the Remuera Road Board, He was buried at Purewa Cemetery in the Auckland suburb of Meadowbank.

Personal life

Mitchelson had a wooden mansion built at Muriwai around the year 1902, which he named Oaia, named after Oaia Island. In 1935, Arthur William Baden Powell named the fossil species Bathytoma mitchelsoni in honour of Mitchelson, as the holotype of the species had been found in deposits on Mitchelson's Muriwai property.