Francis Mitchell

	Francis Mitchell Francis Mitchell may refer to: * Francis Mitchell (knight) (c. 1556–c. 1628), English knight, last to be publicly degraded * Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) (1876–1946), British admiral * Francis Mitchell (British Army officer) (1904–1954), British general * Francis John Mitchell Francis John Mitchell (1929–1970) was a biologist and curator with a special interest in herpetology. Active from South Australia, he was vice president of the state's Royal Society and employed at South Australian Museum. His initial positions a ... (1929–1970), Australian biologist and herpetologist See also * Frank Mitchell (other) {{hndis, Mitchell, Francis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Francis Mitchell (knight) Francis Mitchell (c. 1556 – died in or after 1628) was the last English knight of the realm to be publicly degraded (stripped of his knighthood), after being found guilty of extorting money from licensees following his being granted monopoly on the licensing of inns by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and James I. Political career Mitchell was probably of an Essex family. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, about 1574 and seems to have been subsequently employed as private secretary to a succession of noblemen. In a letter to Secretary Conway (February 1626) he speaks of having served 'six great persons' in that capacity, but only gives the name of Lord Burgh, lord deputy of Ireland. He was secretary from 1594 to 1597 to Sir William Russel, lord deputy, and was probably in the employment of William Davison and Lord Salisbury — possibly in the service of the latter he visited Rome, where he was imprisoned by the inquisition. He appears to have performed se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy Officer) Admiral Francis Herbert Mitchell, (10 January 1876 – 7 March 1946) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the 3rd Battle Squadron and was President of the Dardanelles Committee in 1919. Naval career Mitchell was the son of Colonel Herbert Leonard Mitchell and Mary Arabella Susan Reynolds, the grandnephew of Major General John William Reynolds, and the great-grandson of General Charles Reynolds. Mitchell joined the Royal Navy in 1889, and was appointed lieutenant for gunnery duties on the pre-dreadnought battleship on 10 May 1902. Mitchell served in the First World War and, as commanding officer of the protected cruiser , saw action in the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915. He went on to be Naval Adviser to Commander-in-Chief Forces in Egypt in 1915, commanding officer of the training ship in 1916 and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1917. After that he became commanding officer of the battleship in 1918, commanding officer of the gunnery school in 1920 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Francis Mitchell (British Army Officer) Major General Francis Neville Mitchell, (1904 – 15 September 1954) was a British Army officer who commanded the 6th Armoured Division from 1953 until his death in 1954. Military career Born the eldest son of Admiral Francis Mitchell and a cousin of Patrick Mitchell, Mitchell graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned into the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars in 1924. Mitchell served in the Second World War as an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley from 1940, as a General Staff Officer with the 9th Armoured Division from 1941 and as Commanding Officer of the 1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars from 1942. He was appointed commander of the 26th Armoured Brigade in Italy in 1944, and Assistant Deputy Adjutant-General at Allied Forces Headquarters in 1945. At the end of the war he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Mitchell went on to be commander of the 22nd Armoured Brigade in 1947, Brigadier Royal Armoure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Francis John Mitchell Francis John Mitchell (1929–1970) was a biologist and curator with a special interest in herpetology. Active from South Australia, he was vice president of the state's Royal Society and employed at South Australian Museum. His initial positions at the museum related to the reptile and frog collections, leading to his role as head curator of the vertebrate Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain. The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ...s in 1965. An active and competitive skin diver who was involved in ocean sports and associations, Mitchell was able to align these interests by obtaining specimens from spear and big game fisherman. Work, legacy, and honors Mitchell discovered and described at least a dozen species of reptiles, including the Black-palmed Rock Monitor, '' Varanus glebopalma''. At least one speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]