John Matthew Mitchell


John Matthew Mitchell CBE was Assistant Director-General and Senior Research Fellow of the British Council.
Education: Ilford County High School, Worcester College, Oxford, Queens' College, Cambridge, Vienna.
Mitchell served in the Royal Navy in World War II, 1944-6. He worked for the British Council from 1949 until his retirement in 1985, by which time he was Assistant Director-General.
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In his self-published book of poems, the author acknowledges that the selection includes items previously published in the New Statesman, The Listener, The London Magazine, Country Life, and elsewhere, often under the name Matthew Mitchell.