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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Mill | | First Name(s) | John Stuart | | Birth Year | 1806 | | Death Year | 1873 | | Entry | The philosopher : son of James Mill (q.v.) : born May 20, 1806: educated privately : he was never in India, but was connected with it by joining the India House as a junior clerk in 1823 : he was third in the office, on £1,200 a year, when his father died in 1836 : chief of the office in 1856, on £2,000 a year : he prepared, in 1858, the document in which the E. I. Co. stated their case against their threatened termination : when the statute of 1858 was passed and the government of the E. I. Co. came to an end, Mill retired on a pension of £1,500 a year. It is said that, for 23 years, he wrote all the political despatches from the India House : he wrote no single special work on India : died May 8, 1873. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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