Background
Mitchell was born in the Amersham Rural District in Buckinghamshire, and educated at Aldenham School, Hertfordshire, before becoming a wine shipper and merchant.
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David Mitchell
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Mitchell served as a councillor on Street Pancras Borough Council from 1956 to 1959. He contested Street Pancras North in 1959. In 1970 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Social Services in the Heath Ministry.
Mitchell served in the Thatcher Ministry as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry, 1979 - 1981, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office, 1981 - 1983, and then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, 9 June 1983 - 9 January 1986, and Minister of State, 9 January 1986 - 25 July 1988, at the Department of Transport.
He was knighted in 1988 upon his resignation from Government.
Membership
43rd United Kingdom Parliament. 44th United Kingdom Parliament. 45th United Kingdom Parliament.
46th United Kingdom Parliament.
47th United Kingdom Parliament. 48th United Kingdom Parliament.
49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament.
51st United Kingdom Parliament]
He was the Member of Parliament for Basingstoke from 1964 to 1983, and for Hampshire North West from 1983 until he retired in 1997.
Mitchell"s son Andrew Mitchell is the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield, and served as Secretary of State for International Development and briefly as Chief Whip in David Cameron"s government between 2010 and 2012.
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Political Party
Conservative Party