{"id":868614,"date":"2026-08-26T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868614\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:00:12","slug":"vale-peter-mitchell-mcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868614\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale Peter Mitchell | MCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Melbourne Cricket Club is saddened by the passing of Hans Ebeling Award winner and former Committee member, Peter Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/84_peter_mitchell_image.webp\" alt=\"Headshot of Peter Mitchell. He wears an MCC tie\" width=\"350\" height=\"474\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peter represented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcc.org.au\/groups-club-sport\/sporting-sections\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MCC Tennis<\/a> section as a player from 1964 \u2013 1986 and held the role of Committee member, Secretary and Chairman, over decades involved with the Section.<\/p>\n<p>A 500-game player with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcc.org.au\/groups-club-sport\/sporting-sections\/squash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MCC Squash<\/a>, he joined the Section\u2019s inaugural Committee in 1968 where he remained until 1992 and spent eight years during this period as Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Peter was involved in the foundation of one of the MCC\u2019s Special Interest Groups, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcc.org.au\/groups-club-sport\/special-interest\/long-room-wine-and-food-society\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Room Wine and Food Society<\/a>, and was the inaugural chairman of the Golf Club, which has since become one of the Club\u2019s Sporting Sections.<\/p>\n<p>A dedicated and admired member of the MCC community, Peter will be missed and his vast contributions to the Club will be remembered.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts remain with Peter\u2019s family, friends and the Club\u2019s community during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Vale Peter Mitchell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Melbourne Cricket Club is saddened by the passing of Hans Ebeling Award winner and former Committee member,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-868614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}