MITCHELL, THOMAS, a philologist, was the son of a riding-master, and was born in London in 1783. From Christ's Hospital he passed as an exhibitioner to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1802. As he did not enter into orders, a fellowship which he subsequently obtained at Sidney Sussex College was taken from him at the end of a limited period, and he was forced to support himself by private tuition and by writing for the press. Several essays
in the Quarterly Review on Aristophanes, and a metrical translation of the plays of that poet, were the groundwork of Mitchell's reputation. These were followed by editions of five dramas of Aristophanes and the entire works of Sophocles. Mitchell died at his house near Woodstock in 1845.