Wednesday, 29 January 2014
402 John Mills
Constituency : Wycombe 1862-8
John came in at Wycombe in March 1862 to replace the deceased George Dashwood.
John was the son of a textile and property magnate and the brother of Thomas Mills, MP for Totnes. He was a Congregationalist. He was a silk manufacturer but took a back seat from 1840 to concentrate on philanthropy and politics.
Shortly after John's election, Thomas Mills died and the estate of Tolmers Park came into John's possession.
John contested the seat, now reduced to a single member in 1868 but lost out to his fellow MP William Carington.
He died in 1879 aged 81,
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