Frank Herbert Mitchell
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| Full name | Frank Herbert Mitchell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
13 June 1878 Eton, Buckinghamshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
27 November 1951 (aged 73) Crowborough Warren, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm underarm slow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Richard Mitchell (father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1898 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1897–1905 | Buckinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 11 May 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Frank Herbert Mitchell KCVO CBE (13 June 1878 – 27 November 1951) was a British civil servant known as a private secretary and later Groom in Waiting to King George V. In his youth, he also played first-class cricket.
Cricket
Mitchell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm underarm slow. The younger son of first-class cricketer and Eton master Richard Mitchell,[1] he was born at Eton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Eton College, where he represented the college cricket team.[2] He was later educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
Mitchell debuted for Buckinghamshire in the 1897 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1897 to 1905, which included 7 Minor Counties Championship matches.[3] Mitchell made his first-class debut for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1898. He played 2 further first-class matches in that season, against Somerset and Surrey.[4] In his 3 matches he scored 23 runs at a batting average of 5.75, with a high score of 9.[5] With the ball he took 5 wickets at a bowling average of 22.80.[6] These all came in a single innings against Somerset, with Mitchell taking 5/32.[7]
Outside cricket, Mitchell was an able golfer. He played golf for Oxford University against Cambridge University from 1898 to 1901 and also represented England on three occasions.[1][8]
Career
During the First World War, he served as assistant director of the Official Press Bureau of the Home Office. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours.[9]
He was to later serve as Assistant Private Secretary to King George V from 1931–1937.[8] Knighted in 1937, Mitchell was subsequently appointed to the office of Groom in Waiting.[10] He succeeded as the Secretary of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in 1933.[10] He died at Crowborough Warren, Sussex on 27 November 1951.
References
- 1 2 Begent, Peter J.; Chesshyre, Hubert; Chesshyre, D. H. B.; Jefferson, Lisa (1999). The Most Noble Order of the Garter: 650 years. Spink. p. 142.
- ↑ "Teams Frank Mitchell played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ↑ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Frank Mitchell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Frank Mitchell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Frank Mitchell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ↑ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Frank Mitchell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ↑ "Oxford University v Somerset, 1898". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- 1 2 "Wisden – Obituaries in 1951". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30460. p. 371. 7 January 1918.
- 1 2 Headlam, Sir Cuthbert Morley (1999). Bell, Stuart, ed. "Northern Area Chairman". Camden Fifth Series 14: 98. doi:10.1017/S0960116300002232.