Thomas_Mills_(MP)

Thomas Mills (MP)

Thomas Mills (MP)

British politician

Thomas Mills (1794 – 11 November 1862)[1][2] was a British Liberal and Whig politician.

Quick Facts Member of Parliament for Totnes, Preceded by ...

Born in Middlesex, Mills was the eldest son of Samuel Mills and Mary née Wilson. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge in Michaelmas in 1815, graduating with a BA in 1819 and an MA in 1822. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1816, and called to the Bar in 1832. After this, he was a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Bedfordshire and a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.[2]

Mills was first elected Whig MP for Totnes at the 1852 general election and, becoming a Liberal in 1859, held the seat until his death in 1862.[3]

References

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    Rayment, Leigh (4 May 2018). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "T"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    Venn, John; Venn, J. A., eds. (1951). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from The Earliest Times to 1900: Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900, Part 4: Kahlenberg-Oyler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-1-108-03614-6. Retrieved 15 July 2018 – via Google Books.
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    Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 282–283. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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