Mills Baronets
There have been three baronetcies created for people with the surname Mills, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the titles are extant.
The Mills Baronetcy, of Hillingdon in the County of Middlesex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 November 1868. For more information on this creation, see Baron Hillingdon.
The Mills Baronetcy, of Ebbw Vale in the County of Monmouth, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 January 1921 for the industrialist and Conservative Member of Parliament Frederick Mills. The second Baronet was Director of Public Works of Sierra Leone between 1939 and 1942 and of Uganda between 1942 and 1947.
The Mills Baronetcy, of Alcester in the County of Warwick, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 July 1953. For more information on this creation, see Viscount Mills.
Read more about Mills Baronets: Mills Baronets, of Hillingdon (1868), Mills Baronets, of Ebbw Vale (1921), Mills Baronets, of Alcester (1953)
Famous quotes containing the word mills:
“You haf slafed your life away in de bosses’ mills and your fadhers before you and your kids after you yet. Vat is a man to do with seventeen-fifty a week? His wife must work nights to make another ten, must vork nights and cook and wash in day an’ vatfor? So that the bosses can get rich an’ the stockholders and bondholders. It is too much... ve stood it before because ve vere not organized. Now we have union... We must all stand together for union.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)