Arthur F. H. Mills | |
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Born | Arthur Frederick Hobart Mills 12 July 1887 Stratton, Cornwall, United Kingdom |
Died | Hampshire, United Kingdom | 18 February 1955
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Genre | War, Adventure, Crime |
Notable works | With My Regiment: From the Aisne to La Bassée (1916); Hospital Days (1916); The Yellow Dragon (1925) |
Spouse | Lady Dorothy Rachel Melissa Walpole Mills (1889–1959); divorced in 1933 |
Relatives | Grandfather: Arthur Mills (MP); Father: Revd Barton R. V. Mills; Brother: George Mills |
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Arthur Frederick Hobart Mills was the son of the Rev. Barton Mills and Lady Catherine Hobart-Hampden, sister of the seventh Earl of Buckinghamshire.[1] He was one of a family of authors. His grandfather, Arthur Mills, was a Tory Member of Parliament and an expert on colonial economies and governance. The senior Mills' India in 1858 describes the political and economic conditions in India after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Arthur F. H. Mills was the brother of children's book author George Mills (Meredith and Co., King Willow) and husband of author, explorer, and adventurer Lady Dorothy Mills (The Laughter of Fools, The Road to Timbuktu), to whom he was married from 1916 until their divorce in 1933.