Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills

For the Louisiana politician and businessman, see P.J. Mills.

Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills KBE , PC (4 January 1890-10 September 1968) was a British politician. He was born at Thornaby on Tees and educated at Barnard Castle School.[1]

He earned Harold Macmillan's absolute confidence and was described by the ODNB as "one of the most politically influential industrialists of his time."[2]

He was created as a baronet in 1952 and Baron Mills of Studley in 1957. He served as Minister Without Portfolio in the Macmillan Government. Following his departure from the Cabinet (after the "Night of the Long Knives") he became the 1st Viscount Mills of Kensington in 1962.

References

  1. ^ Halsbury, ‘Mills, Percy Herbert, first Viscount Mills (1890–1968)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2011
  2. ^ Halsbury, ‘Mills, Percy Herbert, first Viscount Mills (1890–1968)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2011