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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. 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. Mitchell died in Surrey on 9 April 2019, at the age of 94.