page_title: Robin Mitchell
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Robin Mitchell / Career
caption_attribution_description: A Calling Card Case made out of the skin taken from the back of the left hand of notorious Edinburgh 'bodysnatcher' William Burke.
context_page_description: Robin Mitchell is a Scottish writer and producer.
context_section_description: Mitchell co-founded Edinburgh's Cadies & Witchery Tours  in 1984 and the film production company Cadies Productions Ltd 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.
  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. 
  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.
  Mitchell founded Scottish political party Adam Lyal's Witchery Tour Party in 1999. The "publicity-seeking" 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." In 1999, Mitchell received 1184 votes. In 2003, Robin Bankhead received 964 votes and in 2007, Euan MacInnes received 867 votes. The party deregistered in 2009.
caption: Calling Card Case made out of the skin of ‘bodysnatcher’ William Burke
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