Eric Mitchell

Eric Mitchell
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About
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Gender	Male
First Appearance	—
Date of Birth	1940
Date of Death	1985
Classification	Unseen
Relationships/Known relatives
Wife	Peggy Mitchell
Sons	Phil Mitchell Grant Mitchell
Daughters	Sam Mitchell
Father	Phillip Mitchell
Mother	Sandra Mitchell
Grandsons	Ben Mitchell Mark Fowler Jr Richard Mitchell
Granddaughters	Louise Mitchell Courtney Mitchell
Great-granddaughters	Lexi Pearce
Brothers	Archie Mitchell (deceased) Clive Mitchell
Grandfathers	Betty Mitchell
Grandmothers	Edward Mitchell
Uncles	Kenneth Mitchell
Aunts	Madge Mitchell
Nephews	Harry Mitchell Charlie Mitchell
Nieces	Ronnie Mitchell Roxy Mitchell
Great-nephews	James Branning (deceased) Matthew Mitchell-Cotton
Great-nieces	Danielle Jones (deceased) Amy Mitchell
First cousins	Stephen Mitchell
Other known relatives	Billy Mitchell Janet Mitchell William Mitchell Lola Pearce Dan Pearce Janet Mitchell Charlie Mitchell Jamie Mitchell
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Eric Mitchell (1940 -1985) is a former member of the Mitchell family. He was Father of Phil Mitchell, Grant Mitchell and Sam Mitchell, and husband of Peggy Mitchell. Also he is the brother of Clive Mitchell and Archie Mitchell, as well as the Uncle of Ronnie Mitchell and Roxy Mitchell, Charlie Mitchell and Harry Mitchell.

Eric Mitchell was born in London in 1940, the son of Phillip Mitchell and Sandra Mitchell. Eric was aboxer and won a match in 1957 at the Hackney Empire. In September 1960, Eric married Peggy Mitchell because she was pregnant with Phil, who was born in January 1961. Eric, a keen boxer, worked for gangster Johnny Allen. Johnny would taunt Eric, making him do demeaning jobs because Eric was a better boxer than him. Eric fell in love with a woman called Maureen and planned to elope with her, but changed his mind, unable to desert his family, who he grew to resent.

Eric took his angst out on Peggy and was often violent towards her and Phil. Peggy considered leaving when her sons, Phil and Grant, were teenagers, and once even tried to seduce Johnny Allen, but he turned her down. Peggy tried to save her marriage by having another child in 1975, her only daughter Sam.

Her relationship with Eric improved, but only temporarily, and when Kevin Masters employed Peggy to work at his minicab firm, they began a secret affair. When Eric developed cancer, Peggy gave up work to care for him, after Eric's died in 1985 of cancer Peggy went on to marry Frank Butcher, albeit nearly 13 years later.

in 2015 Vincent Hubbard came to Walford and knew Ronnie and got into hot water with Phil but is later revealed to be working with the police on getting rid of Phil in revenge for his father Eric murdering Vincent's father years ago which was a close guarded secret between his son Vincent and wife Claudette Hubbard

In June 2016, Peggy and Sharon wree leafing through old photos and found a photo of Peggy with Eric taken when Phil was a baby, about 9 months old, so about late 1961. Eric bore a resemblance to a young Ronnie Kray, notorius East End gangster and one of the Kray Twins. Also a photo of Eric in about 1980 aged 40 was found among the collection, which included Peggy, Sal and an unknown man.

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Eric Mitchell

Peggy Mitchell, Sal Martin, Eric Mitchell and Unknown Male Photo (30 June 2016)

Peggy Mitchell, Phil Mitchell and Eric Mitchell (30 June 2016)

Eric Mitchell Newspaper Clipping (30 June 2016)