Modern English biography

MILLS, CHARLES JAMES CONWAY (son of major William Mills of Teddington, Middlesex 1791–1838). _b._ 29 May 1816; ed. Rugby; ensign 77 foot 26 Dec. 1834; lieut. 52 foot 23 Feb. 1839, lieut.-col. 11 July 1856 to 24 Oct. 1856; served before Sebastopol 1855; lieut.-col. 94 foot 24 Oct. 1856, placed on h.p. 18 Feb. 1862; colonel commandant Oxford military brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 25 June 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. _d._ Howard’s villa, Cardington, Bedford 12 Feb. 1894. MILLS, FRANCIS. _b._ 1793; well known in fashionable and financial society; a frequent contributor to periodicals; amateur painter; one of founders of the Garrick club 1831. _d._ of apoplexy Spring gardens terrace, St. James’ park, London 21 July 1854. MILLS, GEORGE (son of Wm. Mills 1776–1857). _b._ 1808; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; ship-builder with Charles Wood at Bowling-on-the-Clyde 1835–44, began building iron steamers 1838 and many iron canal boats; a stockbroker 1845–50 and manager of the Bowling and Balloch railway and of the Loch Lomond steamboat company; started the Glasgow advertiser and shipping gazette, the first Glasgow penny paper 1857, which ceased 1858; started in Aberdeen 1869 a halfpenny paper called The Northern Star, which ceased 1871; literary critic of the Glasgow Mail many years; started the Milton chemical works 1866, which he carried on till his death; published anonymously Craigclutha: a tale of old Glasgow and the west of Scotland 1857; I remember 1858; and The beggar’s benison, or a hero without a name but with an aim: a Clydesdale story 2 vols. 1866. _d._ Glasgow, May 1881. MILLS, HENRY. _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; recorder of Buckingham, Jany. 1858 to Nov. 1863; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 5 Nov. 1863 to death. _d._ Calcutta 19 March 1864. MILLS, JOHN (1 son of Wm. Mills of Bisterne, Hants., M.P. 1750–1820). _b._ 11 Aug. 1789; ed. Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 22 Oct. 1807; officer in Coldstream guards; served in the Peninsula and in Holland; M.P. Rochester 1831–4; a verderer of the New Forest. _d._ Bisterne 18 Feb. 1871. MILLS, JOHN (son of Edward Mills). _b._ Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire 19 Dec. 1812; greatly extended musical culture in Wales by establishing musical societies in various places; went to London as a missionary to the Jews on behalf of the Welsh Calvinistic methodists 1846; visited the Holy Land 1855 and 1859; author of Grammadeg Cerddoriaeth, a grammar of music. Llanidloes 1838; The British Jews 1853; Palestina. Llanidloes 1858; Three months residence in Nablûs, and an account of the modern Samaritans 1864. _d._ London 28 July 1873. _Biography of the Rev. John Mills. By R. Mills and Rev. N. C. Jones, D.D._ (_in Welsh_). _Aberdare_ (1881). MILLS, JOHN. Resided in Essex; author of The old English gentleman or the fields and the woods 3 vols. 1841; The stage coach or the road of life 3 vols. 1843; D’Horsay or the follies of a day 1844; The English fireside 3 vols. 1844; The old hall or our hearth and homestead 3 vols. 1845; The sportsman’s library 1845; Christmas in the olden times 1846; The life of a foxhound 1848, 3 ed. 1892; A capful of moonshine, or ’tis not all gold that glitters 1849; Our county 3 vols. 1850; The belle of the village 3 vols. 1852; The life of a racehorse 1854; The wheel of life 1855; The flyers of the hunt 1859; Stable secrets or Puffy Doddles, his sayings and sympathies 1863; Too fast to last 3 vols. 1881; On the spur of the moment 3 vols. 1884. _d._ about 1885. MILLS, JOHN. Ed. at Pembroke coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; R. of Orton Waterville, Hunts. 1 May 1837 to death; as senior regent of Cambridge presented a congratulatory address to the queen on her accession June 1837; a strong supporter of Church missionary society, had a mangle, a threshing floor and a flower stall in Peterborough market, the profits of which went to the missionary fund. _d._ Orton Waterville, Dec. 1892. MILLS, JOHN REMINGTON. _b._ London 15 Jany. 1798; a silk manufacturer to 1840 when he retired; contested Leeds 28 March and 5 June 1857; contested Finsbury 17 Dec. 1861; M.P. Wycombe 1862–8; contested Wycombe 17 Nov. 1868; F.R.G.S. _d._ Kingswood lodge near Tunbridge Wells 22 Nov. 1879, personalty sworn under £1,200,000, 27 Dec. 1879. MILLS, PAIXFIELD or PAITFIELD. _b._ 1817; solicitor general of Nevis 9 Dec. 1847, chief justice of Nevis 1852 or 1853. _d._ of cholera at Nevis 1 Jany. 1854. MILLS, RICHARD (youngest son of Thomas Mills, V. of Hillingdon, Middlesex). _b._ Hillingdon 1785; one of the sworn clerks of court of chancery to 1842; a taxing master in court of chancery 1842–71. _d._ the Moat, Eltham, Kent 21 April 1880. _Law Times_, _lxix_ 16 (1880). MILLS, RICHARD. _b._ Pump farm near Benenden, Kent 16 Feb. 1798; first played at Lord’s in Kent _v._ M.C.C. 2 July 1827; left handed batsman and bowler; played in the great matches at Lord’s for many seasons and was one of best players of his day; with Wenman beat an eleven at double wicket without having any fieldsmen; a match Kent _v._ Yorkshire given for his benefit at Cranbrook 1862; a farmer and hop grower at Hawkhurst, Kent 1862. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _ii_ 17 (1862). MILLS, RICHARD HORNER. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; professor of political economy in Queen’s college, Cork 1849 to death; author of The principles of currency and banking, being five lectures delivered in Queen’s college, Cork