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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote 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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