John Mills (1789-1871)

John Mills (11 August 1789 – 18 February 1871) was a British soldier and politician.

He was the eldest son of William Mills, a director of the Honourable East India Company, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Mills, 1st Baronet.

Mills was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 22 October 1807.cite book | title=Modern English Biography v. 2 | first=Frederic | last=Boase | publisher=Netherton & Worth | year=1897 | page=890 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_IVmAAAAMAAJ | accessdate=2008-10-03] He was commissioned an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 27 December 1809. [LondonGazette|issue=16326|startpage=2022|date=19 December 1809|accessdate=2008-10-04] Mills served with the regiment during the Peninsular War and in Holland. He was promoted Lieutenant and Captain on 10 January 1814. [LondonGazette|issue=16847|startpage=181|date=22 January 1814|accessdate=2008-10-04]

Mills was later appointed a verderer of the New Forest, and served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1831 to 1834. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1839, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant in 1846. [LondonGazette|issue=20605|startpage=1836|date=19 May 1846|accessdate=2008-10-04] He died in 1871 at his estate of Bisterne.

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