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, 1944–1946. He worked for the British Council from 1949 until his retirement in 1985, by which time he was Assistant Director-General. Mitchell died in Surrey on 9 April 2019, at the age of 94.

Appointments and honours

Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1972-3.
He was awarded the CBE in 1976.
Fellow, Institute of Linguists.

Publications

International Cultural Relations, 1986

Verse and short stories, including Selected Poems, 2009
Translations from German and French

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.