Henry Mitchell

Henry Mitchell (c.1320–1384) was an Irish judge of the fourteenth century. He was one of the first recorded holders of the office of Attorney General for Ireland, and was subsequently Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.

He was born in Killeek, County Dublin, son of John Mitchell. In 1372 he and Roger Hawkenshaw, the Escheator of Ireland, appeared as expert witnesses at a lawsuit in Kilkenny before the Court of King's Bench (Ireland), where Philip Overy claimed possession of certain lands allegedly left to him by Thomas le Botiller. In 1374 the Crown ordered an extra payment to him of 33 shillings for arguing the pleas before the Court of Common Pleas, and before the Lord Treasurer of Ireland presiding in the Exchequer.

He sat in the Irish House of Commons in the Parliament of 1375. In the same year he and John FitzRery, the new Escheator of Ireland, were ordered to collect the King's debts. He held office briefly as an ordinary Baron of the Exchequer in 1376, Mitchell died in 1384.