Rosalind Mitchison

Rosalind Mary Mitchison FRSE ( Wrong; 11 April 1919 – 19 September 2002) was a 20th-century English historian and academic who specialised in Scottish social history. She was affectionately known as "Rowy" Mitchison.

Life

Rosalind Mary Wrong was born in Manchester. Her father, Edward Murray Wrong (1889–1928), and his father, George MacKinnon Wrong, were both historians. Her mother was Rosalind Wrong was also a historian and was the daughter of Arthur Smith, master of Balliol College, Oxford; after Edward's death, she married Sir Henry Clay, becoming Rosalind, Lady Clay. Her brother was Oliver Wrong.

She was educated at Dragon School

She died in hospital in Edinburgh on 19 September 2002.

Family

In 1947, while Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, she married zoologist John Murdoch Mitchison, son of Naomi Mitchison and Dick Mitchison. They had four children, three daughters and one son.

Books and publications Agricultural Sir John. The life of Sir John Sinclair of Ulster 1754–1835 Geoffrey Bles 1962 British population change since 1860 prepared for the Economic History Society Macmillan 1977 Coping with Destitution: Poverty and Relief in Western Europe (Joanne Goodman Lecture) University of Toronto Press 1992 Economy and society in Scotland and Ireland 1500–1939 edited by Rosalind Mitchison and Peter Roebuck John Donald 1988 Essays in eighteenth-century history. From the English Historical Review / arranged by Rosalind Mitchison. Longmans Green & Co.1966 Girls in trouble : sexuality and social control in rural Scotland, 1660–1780 with Leah Leneman. Scottish Cultural Press 1998 History of Scotland Routledge 3rd revised edition 2002 Life in Scotland Batsford 1978 Lordship to patronage : Scotland 1603–1745. Edinburgh University Press 1990 Old Poor Law in Scotland : the experience of poverty, 1574–1845. Edinburgh University Press 2000 People and society in Scotland. 1, 1760–1830 / edited by T.M. Devine and Rosalind Mitchison. John Donald 1988/2006 Regional levels of Scottish illegitimacy, 1660–1770 1983 Roots of nationalism studies in northern Europe edited by Rosalind Mitchison John Donald 1979/1980 Scotland in the age of improvement : essays in Scottish history in the eighteenth century edited by N.T. Phillipson and Rosalind Mitchison. Edinburgh University Press New Edition 1997 Sin in the city : sexuality and social control in urban Scotland, 1160–1780 with Leah Leneman Scottish Cultural Press 1998 Why Scottish history matters editor, Rosalind Mitchison Saltire Society 1999