Thomas Frank Mitchell (22 October 1907 – 20 May 1960) was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1928 and 1934.
Early life Mitchell was born at Johannesburg in South Africa,Thomas Mitchell, CricInfo. Retrieved 21 December 2018. the son of Frank Mitchell who had played Test cricket for both England and South Africa.Thomas Mitchell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2018. He was educated at Tonbridge School in Kent, being described in 1922 as a very young batsman of "distinguished cricketing stock".Altham HS (1923) Public School Cricket in 1922, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1923, p.337. Retrieved 21 December 2018. As a schoolboy he was described as having a "steadiness" when battingAltham HS (1924) Public School Cricket in 1923, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1924, p.305. Retrieved 21 December 2018. and a "pretty good" batsman who watched the ball wellAltham (1924) p.315 who bowled "quite well enough" to be considered an allrounder.Altham HS (1925) Public School Cricket in 1922, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1925, p.299. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
Cricket He played for Lord's schools against The Rest and the Public Schools against the Army in both 1924 and 1925 and captained Tonbridge in 1925, his final year at school.Carlaw, pp.126–127. (Retrieved 29 November 2020.)Altham (1925) p.314 He first played for Kent's Second XI the same year and scored a century in 1927 before making his Kent First XI debut in June 1928 in a match against Sussex at Tunbridge Wells. He went on to play 24 times for the county as an amateur, usually appearing in May and June. He made one half-century for Kent, scoring 64 runs against Northants in 1930, and played occasional matches for the Second XI. He played his final First XI match in 1934.
Mitchell also played six times for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and once for HDG Leveson Gower's XI in first-class matches and played club cricket for Blackheath, Old Tonbridgians and Band of Brothers. He also played rugby union for Kent.
Professional and later life Professionally Mitchell worked as a broker at Lloyd's of London. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, ending the war as a Squadron Leader, although he did not learn to fly until after the war. Mitchell married Joan Hall in 1925 and died at St John's Wood in London in 1960 aged 52.
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