Sir David Bower Mitchell (20 June 1928 – 30 August 2014) was a British Conservative politician who was a Member of Parliament for over 30 years, and who served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's government.
[1][2] Mitchell was born in the Amersham Rural District in Buckinghamshire, and educated at Aldenham School, Hertfordshire, before becoming a wine shipper and merchant.
Mitchell served as a councillor on St Pancras Borough Council from 1956 to 1959.
He was the Member of Parliament for Basingstoke from 1964 to 1983, and for Hampshire North West from 1983 until he retired in 1997.
[4] Mitchell's son Andrew Mitchell is the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield, and served as a minister in the governments of John Major, David Cameron and Rishi Sunak.