Alan Mitchell

Alan F. Mitchell (4 November 1922 – 3 August 1995) was a British forester, dendrologist and botanist, and author of several books on trees.

He almost single-handedly measured every notable tree in the British Isles, founding the Tree Register of the British Isles (T.R.O.B.I.), which held records of over 100,000 individual notable trees at the time of his death.

During the Second World War, he served with the Fleet Air Arm in the Far East. Returning by troop ship in the Red Sea at the end of the war, he pondered his future and decided it would be trees. In 1976, the Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland awarded him its Medal for Distinguished Service to Forestry (Gold Medal) during a Society meeting at Westonbirt. (From a tribute by Esmond Harris, Quarterly Journal of Forestry, January 1996, page 67).

His 1987 book The Guide to Trees of Canada and North America is dedicated to his sister Christine. The book makes occasional oblique reference to a trip to North America in 1976.

Alan Mitchell (comics)

Alan Mitchell (born 1960 in London, England) is a writer.

Biography

In 1988 Mitchell began writing in partnership with Pat Mills, who met the writer while Mitchell was working as a shop manager for Acme Comics in Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, South London. Mills was looking for a black writer to help him create a nightmare urban world based in the UK. This would complement the one that Mills had developed with his main character Eve and her friends in Central America with a focus on corporate exploitation by the multinationals in the third world. It was the beginning of a writing partnership that would last until 2004.

In Crisis, the revolutionary political comic from Fleetway, Mitchell worked on Books 2 and 3 of the controversial story, Third World War. This was a complex and hard hitting narrative that covered issues including matriarchy, police racism, no-go areas, private police forces, class war, and black resistance (Newsinger, 1999). The stories anticipated the surveillance society and Macpherson by at least a decade. Mitchell also had the opportunity of writing an Amnesty International story "Prisoner of Justice" with Glenn Fabry as artist. Amongst the most memorable Third World War' stories were "Liat’s Law" parts 1&2 with artist Duncan Fegredo, and "The Black Man’s Burden". This classic quartet of stories, with John Hicklenton's art, introduced the character of the villainous Chief Inspector Ryan, the embodiment of racism within the police force (Newsinger, 1999). The tales provided the platform that Mills had framed for Mitchell to express his political perspective and cultural concerns of the time. The Black African Defence Squad (BADS), and the mothers of Azania, Sonnyboy and Charles Shebego amongst a number of other characters, served to develop a complex and arresting depiction of black African urban culture in comics. Sean Phillips was the other major artist who collaborated on a number of framing episodes. (Newsinger, 1999)

Alan Mitchell (politician)

Alan E. Mitchell is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 1998. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.

Mitchell was elected in the 1993 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative Michael MacDonald by almost 1,200 votes. He served as a backbench member of John Savage's government until April 2, 1997, when Savage appointed him to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Justice. Mitchell continued in the portfolio when Russell MacLellan took over as premier in July 1997. Mitchell was defeated by New Democrat Darrell Dexter when he ran for re-election in 1998.

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