Editing Austin Mitchell (section)

{{Short description|British academic, Labour politician, and journalist (1934–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = 
| name                = Austin Mitchell
| honorific-suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=100%}}
| image               = Austin Mitchell.jpg
| caption             = Mitchell in 2008
| office              = [[Chief Whip|Opposition Whip]]
| leader              = [[James Callaghan]]<br />[[Michael Foot]]<br />[[Neil Kinnock]]
| term_start          = July 1979
| term_end            = July 1985
| office1             = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry|Shadow Spokesperson For Trade and Industry]]
| leader1             = [[Neil Kinnock]]
| term_start1         = July 1988
| term_end1           = July 1989
| office2             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)|Great Grimsby]]
| predecessor2        = [[Anthony Crosland]]
| successor2          = [[Melanie Onn]]
| term_start2         = 28 April 1977
| term_end2           = 30 March 2015
| birth_name          = Austin Vernon Mitchell
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1934|09|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Bradford]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2021|8|18|1934|9|19|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Leeds]], England
| spouse              = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Dorothea Jackson|1959|1966|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Linda McDougall|1976}}
}}
| party               = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]<br />
[[New Zealand Labour Party|New Zealand Labour]]
| children            = 4
| education           = [[University of Manchester]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Nuffield College, Oxford]] ([[PhD|DPhil]])
}}

'''Austin Vernon Mitchell''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=85%}} (19 September 1934 – 18 August 2021)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/Austin-Mitchell/372|title=Austin Mitchell|website=UK Parliament|access-date=10 April 2019|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410192816/https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/Austin-Mitchell/372|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="grimsby">{{cite news |title=Former Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell dies aged 86 |url=https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/former-grimsby-mp-austin-mitchell-5801589 |access-date=18 August 2021 |work=Grimsby Telegraph |date=18 August 2021 |archive-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818120125/https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/former-grimsby-mp-austin-mitchell-5801589 |url-status=live }}</ref> was a British academic, journalist and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[politician]] who was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)|Great Grimsby]] from a [[1977 Great Grimsby by-election|1977 by-election]] to [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Austin Vernon MITCHELL |url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/2032/Austin-Vernon-MITCHELL |website=[[Debrett's]] People of Today |access-date=12 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111061927/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/2032/Austin-Vernon-MITCHELL |archive-date=11 November 2014}}</ref> He was also the chair of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lesc.info/committee |title=Site de Rencontre Lacelibertine. Site de Rencontres Sérieux P Lacelibertine |access-date=4 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126085150/http://www.lesc.info/committee |archive-date=26 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Before becoming an MP in the United Kingdom, Austin Mitchell was a well known television broadcaster in New Zealand.