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Obituary of the Anglo-Saxonist Bruce Mitchell

"He became a Fellow of St Edmund Hall in 1955, recommended by JRR Tolkein, who wrote that Mitchell 'would prove a very suitable person to fill the lectureship . . . although he is an Australian'."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7041454.ece