Iain Mills
Member of Parliament for Meriden
In office
3 May 1979 – 16 January 1997
Preceded byJohn Tomlinson
Succeeded byCaroline Spelman
Councillor for Lichfield District Council
In office
1974–1976
Personal details
Born(1940-04-21)21 April 1940
Glasgow, Scotland
Died16 January 1997(1997-01-16) (aged 56)
London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Gaynor Jeffries
​
(m. 1971)​

Iain Campbell Mills (21 April 1940 – 16 January 1997) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Mills was born in Scotland but grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and was educated at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.[1] He subsequently returned to Britain, where he worked as a Market Planning Executive for Dunlop, and helped design the tyres that Jackie Stewart won a World Drivers' Championship with.[1] He married Gaynor Jeffries in 1971,[1] and served as a councillor on Lichfield District Council from 1974 until 1976.

He entered the House of Commons at the 1979 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Meriden. He was a parliamentary private secretary to Norman Tebbit.[1]

On 16 January 1997, Mills was found dead from alcohol poisoning at his Dolphin Square flat, aged 56.[1] This caused the government of John Major to lose its parliamentary majority.[2]

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Iain Mills". The Times. 17 January 1997. p. 19.
  2. ↑ Sander, Hannah (10 August 2015). "Dolphin Square: The UK's most notorious address?". BBC. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.