UCL

George Galway Mills

Profile & Legacies Summary

22nd Oct 1765 - 14th Feb 1828

Biography

Absentee slave-owner of St Kitts, and MP in Britain.

  1. 'Mills represented the fourth generation of his family settled on St. Kitts, where they intermarried with the leading planter families....He inherited his father’s plantations, but spent much of his life in England.' Mills was a Member of Council, St Kitts in 1800. In Parliament he represented Wallingford from 8 Feb. 1804 - 1806, Mitchell from 1807 - Jan. 1808, and Winchelsea from 1818 - 1820. He was then the registrar of the Supreme Court in New South Wales from Dec. 1823 until his suicide in 1828. He had been imprisoned for debt (amounting to £43,000) in 1806.

Sources

  1. R. G. Thorne, 'Mills, George Galway (1765-1828)', History of Parliament online, accessed 29/01/2016.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Amelia Norton
Children
yes

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Not known
Belmont [ St Kitts ]

The proprietor of Belmont in St John Capesterre was shown as George G. Mills in the key to the 1828 William McMahon map. The Slave Registers show the estate as in the hands of London bankers throughout.

1792 [SY] - 1828 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
Bottom and Carpoons (?) [ St Kitts | St Anne Sandy Point ]

George Galway Mills inherited the real estate and enslaved people on St Kitts of his father Peter Matthew Mills, subject to trusts previously established by his father. It appears likely but not certain that under these trusts he was tenant-for-life, but he was possibly owner-in-fee.

Legacies Summary

Imperial (1)

Court Registrar
Australia: New South Wales 
Details
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Registrar Supreme Court of New South Wales between 1823 and his suicide in...
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Political (1)

MP
 
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Wallingford Berkshire
1804 - 1806
election →
Mitchell Cornwall
1807 - 1808
election →
Winchelsea Sussex
1818 - 1820

Relationships (2)

George Galway Mills
Son → Father
Peter Matthew Mills
Details
George Galway Mills
Brothers
Charles Andrew Mills
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