John T. Mitchell
John Templeton Mitchell (1854–1914) was born in Scotland in 1854 and emigrated to the USA in 1875, where he settled in Chicago where he found employment as a bank clerk and became a naturalised American citizen. He became interested in
duplicate whist at the age of 34, in 1888, when he read of a duplicate match in his native Glasgow and was instrumental in the formation of the Chicago Duplicate Whist Club. His name is synonymous with the Mitchell Movement used in many bridge clubs today.
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