Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills
Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills, PC (4 January 1890 – 10 September 1968), known as Sir Percy Mills, Bt, between 1953 and 1957 and as The Lord Mills between 1957 and 1962, was a British industrialist, public servant and politician.
Background and education
Mills was born at
Thornaby and educated at Barnard Castle School.[1]
Career
During the
Privy Council at the same time. In October 1959 he became Paymaster General, which he remained until October 1961, when he was made Minister without Portfolio. Following his departure from the Cabinet after the "Night of the Long Knives" he was made Viscount Mills, of Kensington in the County of London, in 1962.[8]
Personal life
Lord Mills died in September 1968, aged 78, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son, Roger.
References
- ^ a b Halsbury, ‘Mills, Percy Herbert, first Viscount Mills (1890–1968)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2011
- ^ Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. [page needed]
- ^ "No. 35399". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1941. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 35455". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 February 1942. p. 714.
- ^ "No. 37598". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1946. p. 2783.
- ^ "No. 39911". The London Gazette. 14 July 1953. p. 3871.
- ^ "No. 40981". The London Gazette. 22 January 1957. p. 502.
- ^ "No. 42765". The London Gazette. 24 August 1962. p. 6727.
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