Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills

Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills KBE, PC ( born January 4, 1890 in Thornaby -on-Tees, † September 10, 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 Chairman of the National Engineering Association. In 1946 he was defeated as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire led to the knight and then on the additional name "Sir". In 1949 he was appointed by Harold Wilson, the then President of the Board of Trade, Chairman of the National Research Development Corporation, a company founded by the government institution for the transfer of innovation from public research institutions to private companies.

In July 1952, he was first and then collected Baronet of Alcester in January 1957 as the 1st Baron Mills of Studley in the County of Warwick in the peerage, which he was a member of the House of Lords. At the same time he became Privy Councillor in 1957 and was 1957-1959 Energy Minister (Minister of Power ) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In 1959 he was appointed by Macmillan to Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ), before he was subsequently 1961-1962 Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Macmillan. On 13 July 1962 he was the so-called Night of the Long Knives victim, in the Macmillan sacked seven Cabinet members. Other members of the cabinet were dismissed Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of Education David Eccles, Minister of Defence Harold Watkinson, the Secretary of State for Scotland John Scott Maclay and the Minister of Housing, Local Government and Wales Charles Hill.

After his resignation from the Cabinet in 1962 he was elevated to the 1st Viscount Mills of Kensington in the County of London. At his death in 1968 his son Roger Clinton inherited his title.