Horace Mills

For the building in North Yorkshire, see Horace Mills, Cononley.
Horace Mills as the Dame in Jack and the Beanstalk (1911)

Horace Mills (1 September 1864 – 14 August 1941) was a British singer, actor and dramatist who specialised in playing pantomime dames in the early 20th-century.[1]

Born in Portsea in Portsmouth in 1864,[2] he was the oldest of six children born to Elizabeth Ann née Jolly and Herbert James Mills, a Colonel in the Ordnance Supply Board.[3]

  1. ^ J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1900–1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) Google Books pg. 647
  2. ^ 1881 England Census for Horace Mills
  3. ^ Horace Mills in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns Register 1754–1932