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William Mills (1750-1820)
William Mills may refer to: Politics * William Mills (1750–1820), MP for St Ives 1790–96 and Coventry 1805–12 * William J. Mills (1849–1915), Governor of the New Mexico Territory *William George Mills (1859–1933), sheep breeder and politician in South Australia *William Oswald Mills (1924–1973), American politician *William Thomas Mills (1924–2011), merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada *William Stratton Mills (born 1932), politician in Northern Ireland * William Mills (Lord Provost) (1776–1857), Scottish cotton merchant and Lord Provost of Glasgow 1834 to 1837 * William Ellison Mills (1859–1930), American leather manufacturer and politician from New York Sports * William Mills (English cricketer) (1820–1877), English lawyer and cricketer *William Mills (New Zealand cricketer) (1875–1962), New Zealand cricketer * Willie Mills (baseball) (1877–1933), American professional baseball pitcher * Billy Mills (footballer) (1891–?), English footballer * Billy M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mills (1750–1820)
William Mills (10 November 1750 – 20 March 1820) was a British Member of Parliament and Director, East India Company. John Mills was the eldest son of the Revd. John Mills, rector of Barford and Oxhill, Warwickshire and educated at Felsted School. He inherited Warden's Hall, High Ongar, Essex from his Uncle William in 1782 and succeeded his father in 1791. He served as a director of the East India Company from 1778 to 1785. He was elected MP for St Ives in 1790, sitting until 1796 and for Coventry for 1805 to 1812. He was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1803–04. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Hon. Wriothesley Digby of Coleshill and Meriden Hall, Warwickshire; they had 6 sons and 3 daughters. His eldest son John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Mills (baseball)
William Henry Mills Jr. (November 2, 1919 – August 9, 2019), also known as "Buster", was a catcher who played in Major League Baseball during the season. Listed at , , he batted and threw right-handed. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Mills was one of many ballplayers who appeared in the major leagues only during the World War II years. Early life Mills started with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1944 as an unsigned free agent out of Holy Cross, where he was a member of the football and baseball squads from 1939 through 1943. In his senior season, Mills served as the captain of the Crusaders baseball team and won the batting title of the league with a .586 average. He was nicknamed ''Buster'' after Colonel Buster Mills, who spent nine seasons in the major leagues as a player or manager. Career Mills, who had been rejected by the military draft because of a perforated ear drum, started his professional baseball career in 1944 with the Lancaster Red Roses of the Interstate Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harold Mills
In number theory, Mills' constant is defined as the smallest positive real number ''A'' such that the floor function of the double exponential function : \lfloor A^ \rfloor is a prime number for all natural numbers ''n''. This constant is named after William Harold Mills who proved in 1947 the existence of ''A'' based on results of Guido Hoheisel and Albert Ingham on the prime gaps. Its value is unknown, but if the Riemann hypothesis is true, it is approximately 1.3063778838630806904686144926... . Mills primes The primes generated by Mills' constant are known as Mills primes; if the Riemann hypothesis is true, the sequence begins :2, 11, 1361, 2521008887, 16022236204009818131831320183, 4113101149215104800030529537915953170486139623539759933135949994882770404074832568499, \ldots . If ''ai'' denotes the ''i'' th prime in this sequence, then ''ai'' can be calculated as the smallest prime number larger than a_^3. In order to ensure that rounding A^, for ''n'' = 1, 2, 3, &he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hobson Mills
William Hobson Mills FRS (6 July 1873 – 22 February 1959) was a British organic chemist. Biography William Hobson Mills was born in Hammersmith on 6 July 1873, the eldest of five children of William Henry Mills, an architect, and Emily Wiles Quincey (née Hobson). The family moved that autumn to Emily's home town, Spalding, Lincolnshire. Mills was educated at Spalding Grammar School and then at Uppingham School. He entered Jesus College, Cambridge in October 1892 and read natural sciences. An injury to his Achilles tendon – sustained at Uppingham – meant that he remained at home for the academic year 1893–1894. He returned to Cambridge in October 1894, and obtained a First Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, in 1896, and in Part II (Chemistry) in 1897. Mills began research in the Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory under the New Zealand chemist Thomas Easterfield. He was encouraged to work on the conversion of 2,4-dibenzoylmesitylene to a pentacyclic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mills (businessman)
William Mills (22 June 1866 – 8 October 1916) was a Western Australian businessman, co-founder of the biscuit manufacturer Mills and Ware. Early life Mills was born in Liverpool, England, on 22 June 1866. He was the son of Joseph Mills, and apprenticed as a baker. After completing his apprenticeship, he travelled to Australia by working as a ship's baker. He arrived in Melbourne, Victoria in 1887, where he got married, and remained for about eight or nine years. Western Australian goldfields Mills came to Western Australia . He joined the gold rush around Kalgoorlie, where he worked as a baker, and likely earned more from that profession than from prospecting. While in the goldfields, Mills met Henry Ware who had also migrated from England, and may have been his school friend. Ware worked in the mines until health problems soon forced him to return to Perth. Mills also returned to Perth by 1897. Business Mills opened a bakery and patisserie shop in 1897, initially in Broome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Corless Mills
William Corless Mills (January 2, 1860 - January 17, 1928) was a US museum curator. Mills was born in Pyrmont, Ohio. Mills specialized in Native American remains, leading excavations in Adena Mound, Ohio (1901) Mills was the fourth curator and librarian of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (1898–1928), following Lucy Allen Smart. He also was * member of the American Ornithological Union * member and librarian of the Ohio Academy of Science * member and president of the Wheaton Ornithological Society * member and treasurer of the Columbus Horticultural Society * charter member of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) * member of the Columbus Iris Society * member of the National Research Council of Archaeology * fellow of the American Ethnological Society * fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science * fellow of the American Anthropological Society * assistant editor of the '' Ohio Naturalist'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mills (inventor)
Sir William Mills (24 April 1856 – 7 January 1932) was an English engineer. He invented the Mills bomb, which was developed and manufactured at his factory in Birmingham, England. The Mills bomb was the hand grenade most widely used by British and Imperial forces during the First World War. He was knighted in 1922. A blue heritage plaque and Mills Bomb artwork commemorating Sir William Mills' achievements are placed on The Times Inn public house in Wear Street, Low Southwick, Sunderland, SR5 2BH. He was born here in 1856. During and after the First World War, he resided in East Boldon on Front Street. Notable places near this area include: East Boldon Cenotaph, East Boldon Methodist Church, The Black Bull Public House and Brewery Early life William Mills was born on 26 April 1856 in Wear Street, Southwick, Sunderland. He was the son of David Mills, a shipbuilder, and his wife Sarah Ann Kirkaldy. The Sunderland historian James Watson Corder recorded that David Mills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mills (bishop)
The Rt Rev William Lennox Mills was Bishop of Ontario from 1901 until 1917. Born in Woodstock, Ontario and educated at Huron College, he was ordained in 1873. His first post was at ''Trinity Church, Norwich, Ontario'' after which he was Rector of ''St Thomas Seaforth, Ontario''. From there he became Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College,Cook, Ramsay (1998). Dictionary of Canadian Biography; Volume XIV, 1911 to 1920. University of Toronto Press, Les Presses de l'université Laval. a canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal and finally (before his elevation to the episcopate) ''Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ... of St Andrew's'', also in the Diocese of Montreal. Notes External links Biography at the ''Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mills (surveyor)
William Whitfield Mills (19 November 1844 – 18 August 1916), usually referred to as "W. Whitfield Mills" or "W. W. Mills", was an English surveyor of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line who is best known for naming a waterhole in Central Australia Alice Spring, from which the town of Alice Springs now takes its name. He also named Heavitree Gap as a tribute to his old school in Devon, England. Early life Mills was born on 19 November 1844 at Plymouth in England. He went to school at Heavitree School in Devon. Mills immigrated to Australia on board the ''Atlanta'' from England, arriving in South Australia on 8 April 1866 at the age of 21. Goyder's Expedition Mills was a surveyor on George Goyder's mission to survey a northern capital Palmerston, later renamed Darwin. He arrived on the ''Moonta'' on 5 February 1869 leaving just short of a year later, the team having surveyed more than 2700 square kilometres of land. Surveying the Overland Telegraph Line On 5 September 1870 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Augustus Mills
William Augustus Mills (1777–1844) was a major general in the War of 1812 and early settler of Livingston County, New York. Biography Mills was born in New Bedford, Connecticut and came to the Genesee Valley with his father. In 1794, he settled at Mount Morris, New York. In 1801, he built a large log cabin on a brow overlooking the Genesee Valley to which he brought his new wife, Susanne Harris of Tioga Point, Pennsylvania, in 1803 (they were married on 30 March 1803 in Tioga Point). As the family grew, he expanded the cabin and lived there quite comfortably until 1838, when the family moved to the new brick house known today as the Gen. William A. Mills House. Mills served in the War of 1812 where he reached the rank of major general. He served during the defense of the Niagara frontier and commanded the New York militia from six counties. He was also well respected by the Native Americans of the Livingston County area who gave him the nickname "Big Kettle." The General s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mills (actor)
William Mills (1701-1750) was a British stage actor. The son of veteran stage actor John Mills and his wife Margaret Mills, he was born in London and baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 29 June 1701. Under his father's guidance he made his debut as a child actor in 1712. Like his father, he was a long-standing member of the Drury Lane theatre company. He took part in the Actor Rebellion of 1733, and left to work at the Haymarket Theatre for a season before returning to Drury Lane. His last appearance was in ''The Merchant of Venice'' in February 1750 and he died two months later on 18 April, shortly before a benefit was to be staged for him, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields. He was married to the actress Theodosia Mills until her death in 1733, after which he married another actress Elizabeth Holliday.The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama p.lviii With his first wife he had a daughter also called Theodosia who likewise became an actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mills
Billy may refer to: * Billy (name), a name (and list of people with the name) Animals * Billy (dog), a dog breed * Billy (pigeon), awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945 * Billy (pygmy hippo), a pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge * Billy, a young male domestic goat Film * Billy (''Black Christmas''), a character from ''Black Christmas'' * Billy (''Saw''), a puppet from ''Saw'' * '' Billy: The Early Years'', a 2008 biographical film about Billy Graham Literature * ''Billy'' (novel), a 1990 novel by Whitley Strieber * ''Billy'', a 2002 biography of Billy Connolly by Pamela Stephenson Music Musicals * ''Billy'' (musical), a musical based on Billy Liar * ''Billy'', a 1969 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Gene Allen and Ron Dante Albums * ''Billy'' (Samiam album) (1992) * ''Billy'' (Feedtime album) Songs * "Billy" (Kathy Linden song), a 1958 song by Kathy Linden * "Billy", a 1986 song by Céline Dion from '' The Best of Celine Dion'' * "Billy", a 1973 son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |