Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills

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Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills, KBE, PC (4 January 1890 – 10 September 1968), known as Sir Percy Mills, Bt, between 1953 and 1957 and as The Lord Mills between 1957 and 1962, was a British industrialist, public servant and politician.

Background and education

Mills was born at Thornaby and educated at Barnard Castle School.

Career

During the Second World War Mills served as Controller-General of Machine Tools at the Ministry of Supply from 1940 to 1944. He earned Harold Macmillan's absolute confidence and was described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "one of the most politically influential industrialists of his time." He was knighted in the 1942 New Year Honours, and was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Knight Commander (KBE) in the 1946 Birthday Honours. He was created as a Baronet, of Alcester in the County of Warwick, in 1952 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Mills, of Studley in the County of Warwick, in January 1957. The same month newly appointed Prime Minister Macmillan made Mills Minister of Power, with a seat in the cabinet. He was sworn of the Privy Council at the same time. In October 1959 he became Paymaster General, which he remained until October 1961, when he was made Minister without Portfolio. Following his departure from the Cabinet after the "Night of the Long Knives" he was made Viscount Mills, of Kensington in the County of London, in 1962.

Personal life

Lord Mills died in September 1968, aged 78, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son, Roger.

References

^ Halsbury, ‘Mills, Percy Herbert, first Viscount Mills (1890–1968)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 May 2011
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
"No. 35399". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1941. p. 2.
"No. 35455". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 February 1942. p. 714.
"No. 37598". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1946. p. 2783.
"No. 39911". The London Gazette. 14 July 1953. p. 3871.
"No. 40981". The London Gazette. 22 January 1957. p. 502.
"No. 42765". The London Gazette. 24 August 1962. p. 6727.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Mills

Political offices
Preceded byAubrey Jones (Minister of Fuel and Power)	Minister of Power 1957–1958	Succeeded byRichard Wood
Preceded byReginald Maudling	Paymaster General 1959–1961	Succeeded byHenry Brooke
Preceded by–	Minister without Portfolio 1961–1962	Succeeded by–
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Viscount Mills 1962–1968	Succeeded byRoger Clinton Mills
New creation	Baron Mills 1957–1968	Succeeded byRoger Clinton Mills
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Alcester) 1953–1968	Succeeded byRoger Clinton Mills

v t e Paymasters general of the United Kingdom
Parnell Stanley Knatchbull Baring Macaulay Granville Stanley Colchester Stanley Pleydell-Bouverie Lowe Donoughmore Lovaine Wilson Cowper Hutt Goschen Monsell Cave Dufferin Childers Adam Cave Plunket Wolverton Beauchamp Thurlow Beauchamp Brownlow Jersey Windsor Seale-Hayne Hopetoun Marlborough Crossley Causton Ashby Strachie Newton Henderson Compton-Rickett Walters vacant Chamberlain Joynson-Hicks Boyd-Carpenter Gosling vacant Sutherland Onslow Arnold vacant Walters Rochester Hutchison Munster Winterton vacant Cranborne vacant Hankey Jowitt Cherwell vacant Greenwood Marquand Addison Macdonald Cherwell Selkirk vacant Monckton Maulding Mills H. Brooke Boyd-Carpenter Wigg vacant Shackleton Hart Lever Eccles Macmillan Dell Williams A. Maude Pym Parkinson J. Gummer Clarke P. Brooke Caithness Ryder Belstead Cope Heathcoat-Amory Willetts Bates Robinson Primarolo Jowell F. Maude Hancock B. Gummer Stride Norman Dowden Mordaunt Ellis Argar Philp Quin Glen Thomas-Symonds

v t e Energy secretaries of the United Kingdom
Ministers of Fuel, Light and Power	Gwilym Lloyd George Manny Shinwell Hugh Gaitskell Philip Noel-Baker
Minister of Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power	Frederik Leathers
Ministers of Fuel and Power	Geoffrey Lloyd Aubrey Jones
Ministers of Power	Percy Mills Richard Wood Frederick Erroll
Ministers of Technology	Frank Cousins Tony Benn
Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry	John Davies Peter Walker
Secretaries of State for Energy	Peter Lord Carrington Eric Varley Tony Benn David Howell Nigel Lawson Peter Walker Cecil Parkinson John Wakeham
Presidents of the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry	Michael Heseltine Ian Lang Margaret Beckett Peter Mandelson Stephen Byers Patricia Hewitt Alan Johnson Alistair Darling
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform	John Hutton
Secretaries of State for Energy and Climate Change	Ed Miliband Chris Huhne Ed Davey Amber Rudd
Secretaries of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	Greg Clark Andrea Leadsom Alok Sharma Kwasi Kwarteng Jacob Rees-Mogg Grant Shapps Kemi Badenoch

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