Gilbert Richard Mitchison, Baron Mitchison
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Gilbert Richard Mitchison, Baron Mitchison otherwise known as Dick Mitchison ( 23 March 1894–14 February 1970) was a British Labour politician.
Biography
He married the writer Naomi Haldane (daughter of John Scott Haldane and sister of J.B.S. Haldane) in 1916 and they had three sons, Denis Anthony Mitchison (born 1919), later a professor of bacteriology; John Murdoch Mitchison (born 1922), and Nicholas Avrion Mitchison who were both professors of zoology.
He was the Labour Member of Parliament for Kettering between 1945 and 1964. He was given a life peerage, created Baron Michison of Carradale in the County of Argyll on 5 October 1964.
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