Leslie Mitchell (historian)

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Leslie George Mitchell ( LG Mitchell ) is a British historian and biographer.

Mitchell was a Fellow of the University College of the University of Oxford , where he received his doctorate, where he was professor of history. He was the dean of his college and was the editor of the University College Record (the college's alumni journal).

He is known for some biographies ( Charles James Fox , William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , as well as the writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and the philologist Maurice Bowra ) and specialized in the 18th century in England. With John Albery he organized the Univ Revue (a musical theater at his college) in the 1970s.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

Fonts

  • Charles James Fox. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 0-19-820104-4 .
  • Lord Melbourne: 1779-1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-820592-9 .
  • Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters. London: Hambledon and London, 2003. ISBN 1-85285-423-5 .
  • The Whig World. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2005. ISBN 1-85285-456-1 .
  • Maurice Bowra: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Published in: The History of the University of Oxford, Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century, Oxford 1986

In 1999 he re- edited Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke for Oxford University Press.

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SURNAME Mitchell, Leslie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitchell, Leslie George (full name); Mitchell, LG
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century