Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills

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Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills KBE , PC (* 4. January 1890 in Thornaby-on-Tees , † 10. September 1968 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Mills, who received his education at Barnard Castle School, worked as an industrialist and at times also chaired the National Engineers Association. In 1946 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". In 1949, Harold Wilson , then President of the Board of Trade , appointed him chairman of the National Research Development Corporation, a government-established agency to transfer innovation from public research institutions to private companies.

In July 1952 he was first a Baronet , of Alcester in the County of Warwick, and then in January 1957 to Baron Mills , of Studley in the County of Warwick, raised to the hereditary nobility , making him a member of the House of Lords . At the same time, he became Privy Councilor in 1957 and was Minister of Power in the cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan between 1957 and 1959 . In 1959 he was appointed Paymaster General by Macmillan , before he was subsequently minister without portfolio in the Macmillan cabinet between 1961 and 1962 . On July 13, 1962, he fell victim to the so-called Night of the Long Knives , in which Macmillan dismissed seven cabinet members. Other dismissed members of government included Lord Chancellor Lord Kilmuir , Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd , Secretary of Education David Eccles , Secretary of Defense Harold Watkinson , Secretary of State for Scotland John Scott Maclay, and Secretary of State for Housing, Local Government and Wales Charles Hill .

After leaving the Cabinet, he was promoted to Viscount Mills , of Kensington in the County of London in 1962 . When he died in 1968, his son Roger Clinton inherited his titles.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette . No. 39911. p. 3871.
  2. ^ The London Gazette . No. 40981, p. 502.
  3. ↑ BBC Historic Figures: Harold Macmillan
  4. ^ THE INDEPENDENT: Night of the long knives: A nasty purge which shocked even the dog (May 8, 1994)
  5. ^ The London Gazette . No. 42765, p. 6727.
predecessor Office successor
New title created Viscount Mills
1962-1968 		Roger Mills
New title created Baron Mills
1957-1968 		Roger Mills
personal data
SURNAME Mills, Percy, 1st Viscount Mills
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mills of Kensington in the County of London, Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount, Baron Mills of Studley in the County of Warwick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Thornaby-on-Tees , North East England , England
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1968