Social Victorians/People/Mills

Also Known As

• Family name: Mills
• Baron Hillingdon
  • Charles Henry Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon of Hillingdon (15 February 1886 – 3 April 1898)
  • Charles William Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon of Hillingdon (3 April 1898 – 6 Apr 1919)
• Baronet Hillingdon
  • Charles Henry Mills, 2nd Baronet Hillingdon (1872 – 15 February 1886)

Demographics

• Nationality: British
• Religion: Jewish

Residences

• Hillingdon Court (1872–)

Family

• Charles Henry Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon of Hillingdon (26 April 1830 – 3 April 1898)
• Lady Louisa Isabella Lascelles (20 July 1830 – 30 November 1918)
  1. Hon. Algernon Henry Mills ( – 21 October 1922)
  2. Hon. Isabella Mary Mills (1863 – 30 March 1941)
  3. Hon. Mabel Blanche Mills (1864 – 8 October 1936)
  4. Charles William Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon of Hillingdon (26 January 1855 – 6 April 1919)
  5. Hon. Geoffrey Edward Mills (1875 – 14 August 1917)
  6. Hon. Violet Louisa Mills (1872 February 12 – 11 March 1958)

Relations

• Lady Louisa Isabella Lascelles was the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Harewood.

Timeline

1886 April 15, Thursday, Hon. Charles W. Mills and Hon. Alice Marion Harbord married. Three of the bridesmaids were Charles Mills's sisters, the Hon. Isabel, Hon. Mabel, and Hon. Violet Mills, enabling identification of Hon. Violet Mills, who was not in The Peerage for this family. Although the description of this wedding is relatively short, it was published in "Arrangements for This Day" in the Morning Post as well as in a number of other newspapers.

1891 April 5, Sunday, the 1891 census lists the following people at Wilderness House, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent: Charles Henry, Lord Hillingdon (60 years old), Louisa, Lady Hillingdon (60), Hon. Isabella M. Hillingdon (28), Hon. Violet L. Hillingdon (19), Hon. Mabel B. Hillingdon (27), Hon. Charles W. Hillingdon (36), Hon. Geoffrey E. Hillingdon (16), Charles T. Mills (4), Silvia C. Grenfell (3), Lord George F. Hamilton (45), Maud C. Lady Hamilton (44), Anthony G. Hamilton (16), Robert C. Hamilton (9), Hon. Maud Lawrence (25), Hon. Henry L. Bourke (50), and Adolphus G. C. Siddle (44), as well as 16 female and 9 male servants, plus 5 female and 4 male servants to one of the people visiting.

1897 July 2, Lord and Lady Hillingdon and the Hon. Violet Mills attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

1901 April 1, Sunday, the 1891 census lists the following people at Wilderness House, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent: Louisa I. Hillingdon (70 years old), Charles W. Lord Hillingdon (46), Violet L. Mills (29), Isabel Mary Mills Lawrence (38), Herbert A. Lawrence (39), Oliver Lawrence (7), and Michael Lawrence (6) as well as 15 female and 10 male servants.

1911 April 2, Sunday, the 1911 census lists the following people at Wilderness House, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent: Louisa Isabella Hillingdon (80 years old), Violet Louisa Mills (38), Mabel Blanche Greaple (47), and Sylvia Caroline Greaple (23) as well as 11 female and 5 male servants.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Charles Henry Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon of Hillingdon (at 594) and Lady Louisa Isabella Lascelles Mills, Baroness Hillingdon (at 595) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. Hon. Violet Mills (at 596) was dressed in the period of Charles II in "white, black, and yellow satin trimmed with gold."

Notes and Questions

1. Attempting to identify Hon. Violet Mills, mentioned in the article on the ball in the Gentlewoman. (40, Col. 2a): Hon. Violet Louisa Mills, M.B.E., lives at "Grey ho. (T.N. 02) Seal, Sevenoaks." Once I had her family — from the wedding announcement of her brother Charles's wedding in the Morning Post, a search for her in the British Newspaper Archive shows her to have been present at a number of notable social events of this time. She seems the likely choice.