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About Norval Mitchell
- Alfred Norval Mitchell, OBE, was born 18 December 1906.
- He served in India from 1930 to 1947, initially with the Indian Civil Service and transferring to the Indian Political Service in 1934.
- He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the London Gazette 2 June 1943 as Political Agent, Orissa States Agency.
- His final position was Chief Secretary of the North-West Frontier Province under the Governor, Sir Olaf Caroe.
- His later career included Clerk to the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia and Secretary and Registrar of the University of St Andrews. In 1968 he completed a biography of Sir George Cunningham, Governor of the Northwest Frontier Province of India 1937-46 and again 1947-48, which was published by William Blackwood, Edinburgh.
- In 1975 he completed an autobiography covering his early life and his service in India.
- This was edited and published posthumously in 2006 by his son, David Norval Mitchell, under the title The Quiet People of India. He died in 1988.
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