Frank Herbert Mitchell

Sir Frank Mitchell

Personal information
Full name	Frank Herbert Mitchell
Born	(1878-06-13)13 June 1878 Eton, Buckinghamshire, England
Died	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
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 3 Runs scored 23 Batting average 5.75 100s/50s –/– Top score 9 Balls bowled 183 Wickets 5 Bowling average 22.80 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 5/32 Catches/stumpings –/–
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, he was born at Eton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Eton College, where he represented the college cricket team. 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. 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. In his 3 matches he scored 23 runs at a batting average of 5.75, with a high score of 9. With the ball he took 5 wickets at a bowling average of 22.80. These all came in a single innings against Somerset, with Mitchell taking 5/32.

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.

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.

He was to later serve as Assistant Private Secretary to King George V from 1931–1937. Knighted in 1937, Mitchell was subsequently appointed to the office of Groom in Waiting. He succeeded as the Secretary of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in 1933. He died at Crowborough Warren, Sussex on 27 November 1951.

External links

• Frank Mitchell at ESPNcricinfo
• Frank Mitchell at CricketArchive