Editing Adrian Mitchell (section)

== Early life and education==
Adrian Mitchell was born on 24 October 1932<ref name=Kustow>{{cite news|last=Kustow|first=Michael|title=Poet Adrian Mitchell dies, aged 76|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/21/adrian-mitchell-obituary|access-date=31 March 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 December 2008}}</ref> near [[Hampstead Heath]], north London. His mother, Kathleen Fabian, was a [[Friedrich Fröbel|Fröbel]]-trained nursery school teacher and his father, Jock Mitchell, a research chemist from [[Cupar]] in Fife. Adrian was educated at the Junior School of [[Monkton Combe School]] in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]. He then went to [[Greenways School]], at [[Ashton Gifford House]] in Wiltshire, run at the time by a friend of his mother. This, said Mitchell, was "a school in Heaven, where my first play, ''The Animals' Brains Trust'', was staged when I was nine to my great satisfaction."<ref name="mylife">{{Cite web|url=http://www.adrianmitchell.co.uk/#/biography/4538662557 |title=My Life |access-date=26 December 2014 |publisher=Adrian Mitchell's website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226103049/http://www.adrianmitchell.co.uk/ |archive-date=26 December 2014 }}<!-- --></ref>

His schooling was completed as a boarder at [[Dauntsey's School]], where he collaborated in plays with friend [[Gordon Snell]].<ref>Mitchell, Adrian. Just Adrian. United Kingdom: Oberon Books, 2012.</ref> Mitchell did his [[National Service]] in the [[RAF]]. He commented that this "confirmed (his) natural pacificism".<ref name="mylife" /> 

He went on to study English at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he was taught by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s son. Mitchell became chairman of the university's poetry society and the literary editor of [[Isis magazine|''Isis'' magazine]].<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/books/23mitchell.html |title=Adrian Mitchell, British Poetry's Voice of the Left, Dies at 76 |access-date=5 January 2009 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 December 2008 |first=William |last=Grimes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509024822/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/books/23mitchell.html |archive-date=9 May 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>