Mitchell, David John, 1924-

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Mitchell, David John, 1924-

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        1924-

        History

        Mitchell, David John, son of James Watt Mitchell, grain broker, of Hampstead, and Clare Dorah Hayden of I. of Wight; b. 24 Jan. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (G); left July 1939 and went to Bradfield Coll.; Trin. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1942, BA MA 1950; pilot training in Ponca City, OK, USA, 1943; staff journalist Picture Post 1947-52; editor and proprietor Pictorial Press Ltd. 1953-6; picture editor COI London 1957-65; a freelance writer and journalist Spain 1965-73, London 1974-; awarded Civil List pension for services to literature 1998; author, Women on the Warpath 1966, The Fighting Pankhursts 1967; Bernardo O’Higgins 1975, Christabel Pankhurst 1977, The Spanish Civil War 1982, Travellers in Spain 1990; m. 1st, 1947 Valerie Eva Bennett; 2nd, 25 Feb. 1955 Cecilia Milwidsky Hopkinson, flautist, d. of Leonard Hopkinson, musician, of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk.

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        GB-2014-WSA-20928

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        GB 2014

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        International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022

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            Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright,

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