Education
Born in Staines, Mitchison was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford and became a barrister (called 1917) and King"s Counsel.
Born in Staines, Mitchison was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford and became a barrister (called 1917) and King"s Counsel.
He worked in the Ministry of Labour during World World War II on the Beveridge man-power survey and led the Nuffield College social reconstruction survey. Mitchison stood for Parliament without success in King"s Norton at the 1931 and 1935 elections. In Parliament, Mitchison sponsored the New Streets Acting as a private member"s bill.
He was given a life peerage, created Baron Mitchison, of Carradale in the County of Argyllshire on 5 October 1964.
He served on the executive of the Fabian Society. They had six children.
Four sons. Geoffrey (1918–1927) Denis (born 1919) later a professor of bacteriology, Murdoch (born 1922), and Avrion (born 1928), both professors of zoology.
Their daughters were Lois and Valentine, the latter of whom married the historian Mark Arnold-Forster. He died in Westminster aged 75.
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He was the Labour Member of Parliament for Kettering between 1945 and 1964, beating the young incumbent, John Profumo, at the 1945 election.