{{Short description|British academic (1925–2019)}} {{Other people|John Mitchell|John Mitchell (disambiguation)}} {{sources|date=June 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} '''John Matthew Mitchell''' CBE (22 March 1925 – 9 April 2019) was Assistant Director-General (1981–1984) and Senior Research Fellow (1984–1985) of the British Council.<ref name="Bulmer-ThomasAffairs1989">{{cite book| title = Britain and Latin America: a changing relationship| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Kfk0AWSaHjoC| accessdate = 10 March 2011| date = 1989-08-25| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-37205-3| pages = 39, 51| first1 = V.| first2 = Royal Institute of International| last1 = Bulmer-Thomas| last2 = Affairs }}</ref>
''Education:'' Ilford County High School, Worcester College, Oxford, Queens' College, Cambridge (MA), Vienna (PhD 1949).
Mitchell served in the Royal Navy in World War II, 1944–1946. He worked for the British Council from 1949 until his retirement in 1985, by which time he was Assistant Director-General.<ref name="poems">{{cite book|title=Selected Poems|year=2009|publisher=blurb.com|author=John Matthew Mitchell}}</ref> Mitchell died in Surrey on 9 April 2019, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mitchell, John Matthew |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-27718 |publisher=Who Was Who 2022 | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U27718 | isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |access-date=6 June 2022}}</ref>
==Appointments and honours== * Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1972-3. * He was awarded the CBE in 1976. * Fellow, Institute of Linguists (Chairman of Council, 1996–99; President, 2004).
==Publications== * ''International Cultural Relations'', 1986 <ref>{{cite book|author=John Matthew Mitchell|title=International Cultural Relations|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalcul00jmmi|url-access=registration|year=1986|publisher=Allen & Unwin (republished 2016 by Routledge)|isbn=978-1-138-94101-4}}</ref> * Verse and short stories, including ''Selected Poems'', 2009 <ref name="poems"/> * Translations from German and French
In his self-published book of poems,<ref name="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''.
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