Sir Frank Mills, KCVO, CMG (3 December 1923 – 11 May 2006) was a British diplomat. Educated at

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mon ...

, he served in the

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during the

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and then entered the

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in 1946; he was

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to the

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from 1960 to 1962. He was the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Ghana from 1975 to 1978 and to Bangladesh from 1981 to 1983. Mills was appointed a Companion of the

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in the 1971 Birthday Honours and a Knight Commander of the

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in 1983.''The London Gazette''
13 December 1983 (issue 49569), p. 16477.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Frank 1921 births 2006 deaths British diplomats Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Bangladesh High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Ghana Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II Civil servants in the Commonwealth Relations Office