Terence Croft Mitchell (17 June 1929 – 21 April 2019) was a British archaeologist, scholar and curator.
He specialised in West Semitic languages, Near Eastern archaeology, and also took an interest in Biblical matters from an evangelical Christian position.
[1][2] He was educated at Holderness School, New Hampshire, United States (where he was an evacuee during the Second World War), and at Bradfield College in England[1][3] Between school and university, he undertook his military service as a craftsman in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, British Army from 1947 to 1949.
[1][6] He edited and prepared for publication the final three reports from Sir Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur (published in 1962, 1965 and 1972).
[1] In addition to leading the department, he researched and published The Bible in the British Museum (1988).