Vice-Admiral Sir David Mitchell (c. 1650 – 1 June 1710) was a Royal Navy officer and courtier who served as the Black Rod from 1698 to 1710.
He came from humble origins, being descended from, as John Charnock put it, a family "more distinguished for their integrity than their riches". When he was sixteen years old, his father apprenticed him to the master of a trading vessel from Leith.
