Modern English biography

MILLS, THOMAS. _b._ 18 Oct. 1794; contested Reading 30 June 1841; M.P. Totnes 8 July 1852 to death. _d._ on the St. Alban’s road, between Tolmers and Colman Green, Herts. 10 Nov. 1862. MILLS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Mills of Grove house, Surrey). _b._ 17 Nov. 1792; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 1816 to death; R. of Little Henny, Essex 8 May 1821 to death; R. of Stutton, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1821 to death; R. of Great Saxham, Suffolk 9 Oct. 1829 to death; hon. canon of Norwich cath. 1859 to death. _d._ Stutton rectory 29 Sep. 1879. MILLS, WILLIAM. _b._ Lessudden, Roxburghshire 1776; merchant at Glasgow; raised himself to a position of affluence; established the first line of steamers betwixt Glasgow and the Mersey 1820; lord provost of Glasgow 1834 and 1836. _d._ 1857. MILLS, WILLIAM (2 son of Frederick Russell Mills of Hillingdon, Middlesex, precis writer to Home office). _b._ Lower Grosvenor place, London 3 June 1820; ed. at Harrow, where he obtained a governor’s scholarship; captain of the Harrow eleven 1839; went to St. John’s coll. Camb., played in the university eleven 1840–3; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847; revising barrister in South Wales circuit to death; reported in the Q.B. and Q.B. division 1857 to death; on the staff of the Law reports 1867 to death; edited with Wm. Markby, Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence in actions at nisi prius 11 ed.