MILLS, HENRY FORSTER, eldest son of Henry Mills, Willington, Brancepeth, co. Durham, and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Fenwick (qv); b. 5 Sep 1768; adm. 22 Feb 1776; KS (aged 13) 1782; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1786, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1786, scholar 1787; BA 1790; MA 1793; ordained deacon 1793 (Exeter, lit. dim. from York), priest 22 Sep 1793 (York); Curate, Barton in Farbis, Notts., 1793; Perpetual Curate, Castle Eden, co. Durham Feb 1795; Prebendary of York 7 Feb 1795 – May 1797, Precentor 25 May 1797 – May 1802, Chancellor from 27 May 1802; Rector of Barton in Fabis, Notts., 1796-1804 (?); Rector of Gawsworth, Cheshire, from 1803; Rector of Elmley, Yorks., from 1804; m. 27 Nov 1794 Alicia Harriet, third dau. of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); d. 27 Apr 1827.
MILLS, MARKHAM, sixth son of Henry Forster Mills (qv); b. 10 Jul 1813; adm. 30 Jun 1826 (G); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Nov 1831; BA 1836; MA 1839; ordained deacon 16 Oct 1836, priest 15 Oct 1837 (both Bath and Wells); Curate, Sonning, Berks., subseqently Yardley Hastings, Northants 1847-50; signed Play Protest 1847; m. 15 Dec 1841 Elizabeth Matilda, second dau. of Charles Crooke, Westwood House, near Colchester, Essex; d. at Boulogne sur Mer, France 2 Jul 1855.
Mills, Michael Haslam, son of William Haslam Mills, barrister-at-law, and his second wife Doris Hague, d. of Alfred Phillips of Manchester; b. 13 May 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (R); left July 1936; RNVR in WW2 (Lieut.), liaison officer with Free French Navy; joined BBC 1938, returned 1945; head of Comedy 1967-72, responsible for TV production of Dad's Army, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The World of Wooster, Misleading Cases, Up Pompeii; m. 1974 Valerie Leon, actress; d. 7 Jan. 1988.
Mills, Richard Oswald, son of Sir Richard Mills, K.C.B., of Oxted, Surrey, by Alice Caroline, daughter of Sir William George Anderson, K.C.B., of Forest Hill, Kent; b. Feb. 7, 1870; adm. April 1884 (G); left April 1889; a clerk, Secretary's Dept., Bank of England, and some time asst. secretary; m. 1st June 27, 1899, Janet Lavinia, daughter of Edward Burne, of Sydenham, Kent; 2nd April 27, 1910, Dorothy Mary, daughter of Thomas Elsey Bland, of Maldon, Essex; d. March 6, 1932.
MILLS, SIMON, son of William Mills, Leek, Staffs., and Dorothy, dau. of Thomas James Hippesley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1739 (Watts'); left 1745; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Apr 1745; BA 1748; MA 1751; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Mar 1747/8; ordained deacon (Oxford) 2 Jun 1751; Vicar of Goostrey, Cheshire 16 Sep 1754-9; Vicar of Leek, Staffs., from 1758; Rector of Norbury, Derbs. (disp. to hold with Leek 1759); m. 1st, 12 Jul 1751 Elizabeth, only dau. of Rev. Hugh Mee, Vicar of Sandbach, Cheshire; m. 2nd, 17 May 1770 Mary, second dau. of William Furnivall, Bechton, Cheshire; d. 18 Jun 1785.
Mills, William Gundry, son of William Gundry Mills, economic consult., and Esme Vernon, d. of Cecil Douglas Falcke of Bishop’s Stortford, Herts; b. 22 Aug. 1942; adm. Jan. 1956 (B); left Dec. 1960; Brasenose Coll. Oxf., matric. 1961; Columbia Univ. NY, USA 1966-7, MBusA; Bank of America New York 1967-9; Irving Trust Co., asst. sec. New York 1969, asst. vice-pres. 1971, London branch office 1974; m. 8 May 1965 Franchise, d. of Jean-Pierre Gane of St-Cyr-sur-Loire, France; d. 7 Sept. 1987 in a car accident in Turkey.
MILLS, WILLIAM HUNTLEY, second son of William Mills, Saxham Hall, Suffolk, and Clara Jane, second dau. of Rev. Richard Huntley, Boxwell Court, Gloucs.; b. 21 Jun 1823; adm. 23 Jan 1837 (Benthall's); QS 1838; left 1839; Ensign, 89th Foot 20 Nov 1840; Lieut., 25 Aug 1843; retd. 17 May 1844; m.; d. at Ghent, Belgium 8 Mar 1883.
MILLS, WILLIAM YARNTON, eldest son of Rev. William Mills, Rector of Miserden, Gloucs., and Elizabeth Baron; b. 29 Sep 1804; adm. 19 Jun 1816 (G); left 1821; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 Jun 1822; BA 1826; MA 1827; ordained deacon 1829, priest 1830 (both Oxford); Curate, Miserden, Gloucs.; Rector of Miserden, Gloucs., from 1848; m. 8 Aug 1844 Maria, eldest dau. of Robert Henry Hurst (b. 1788, qv); d. 22 May 1870.
MILWARD, WILLIAM, third son of Robert Milward MP, Stafford, Staffs., and Middle Temple, London, Second Justice of Chester, and his first wife Isabel, eldest dau. and coheiress of Sir William Zouche, Kt, Codnor, Derbs.; b. ; adm. ; KS 1677 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1679, matr. 12 Dec 1679, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1679 - void 1688 ; BA 1683 ; ordained deacon 21 Feb 1685/6 (Oxford) ; Curate, Basingstoke, Hampshire (occurs 1686, 1691, as Millward, no given name recorded) ; m. (by Jun 1688) Ann, sister of Thomas Willis (at school under Busby, qv).
MILMAN, ARTHUR, brother of William Henry Milman (qv); b. 10 Jan 1829; adm. 23 Jan 1837; QS (Capt. ) 1842; rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1845; Capt. of the School 1846; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1846, matr. 4 Jun 1846, Westminster Student 1846-60; won University Pairs with Edmund Charles Burton (qv) 1846, and with William Gordon Rich (qv) 1847; rowed in Christ Church eight which was head of the river 1847-8, and bow of Christ Church four 1848; BA 1850; MA 1853; adm. Inner Temple 14 Apr 1848, called to bar 17 Nov 1853; Commissary of Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s 1869; Assistant Registrar and Librarian, Univ. London 1873-9, Registrar and Librarian 1879; m. 6 Apr 1872 Frances Mary, second dau. of John Laurence Tatham, West Hill, Highgate, Middlesex, barrister, Bencher Grays’ Inn; d. 23 Jan 1913.