R. J. Mitchell

Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell (13 June 1902 – 19 November 1963), also known by her married name Rosamond Leys, was an English historian, writer and archivist.

Biography Mitchell was born in Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1902, the daughter of the architect Arnold Mitchell. She studied history as an exhibition scholar at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1921–1924. She earned a BLitt for her thesis, John Tiptoft , Earl of Worcester : a study in English Humanism, in 1929.

Mitchell won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize in 1936, and she cited him in her book John Free, From Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century.

In 1938 Mitchell married John Alan Leys, a market gardener and the youngest son of the barrister and novelist . Afterwards, she "chose not to seek an academic post".

Mitchell died after a motor accident in 1963.