Linda McDougall Biography – Linda McDougall Wiki
Linda McDougall is a former New Zealand journalist, television producer and author. She is also known for being the wife of the late Austin Mitchell who was a British Labour Party politician and journalist who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from a 1977 by-election to 2015. He was the Chair of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign. He was elected to Parliament at a by-election in 1977, following the death of the previous MP, the Foreign Secretary Tony Crosland. At the time he identified himself as a Gaitskellite and later changed his name.
He was a founding member of the University of Canterbury Political Science Department in 1963, supporting it breaking away from former conjoint with the History Department. In 2015 he returned to the University of Canterbury as a Canterbury Visiting Fellow. Mitchell lectured on “Britain and New Zealand – The Great Unravelling”, looking at the evolution of recent British politics, drawing analogies in each section with parallel developments and implications for New Zealand to examine all worldwide trends in the evolution of liberal English-speaking democracies.
He was a journalist at ITV company Yorkshire Television from 1969 to 1977, presenting their regional news programme Calendar, although he spent a short period at the BBC in 1972. During his period at Yorkshire, he chaired a tense live studio discussion involving Brian Clough and Don Revie, immediately following Clough’s sacking by Leeds United in 1974.
Linda McDougall Age
Her age is unknown. However, her husband was born on September 19, 1934, in Bradford, United Kingdom and died on August 18, 2021. He was aged 86.
Linda McDougall Husband
She was married to her husband, Austin Mitchell from 1976 until August 2021 when he died. They got married in Rochdale, United Kingdom. She got married to him after he divorced his first wife, Dorothea Patricia Jackson in 1966.
Linda McDougall Children
She has two children one son, Jonathan Vernon Mitchell, and one daughter, Hannah Kezia Mitchell.
Austin Mitchell Death
He died at the coronary care unit at Leeds General Infirmary on August 18, 2021, aged 86. After his death on Tuesday, the Labour leader said: “Austin served his constituency of Great Grimsby with remarkable commitment for 38 years. There are few MPs whose dedication to their constituents would translate into changing their surname to Haddock to promote local industry. His big sense of humour was matched by his deep Labour values. My thoughts are with his wife, Linda, and his children.”
Austin Mitchell Cause of Death
He died at the coronary care unit at Leeds General Infirmary on August 18, 2021, aged 86.
