Iain Mills

Iain Mills
Iain Mills
Member of Parliament for Meriden
	In office; 3 May 1979 – 16 January 1997
Preceded by	John Tomlinson
Succeeded by	Caroline Spelman
Councillor for Lichfield District Council
	In office; 1974–1976
Personal details
Born	21 April 1940; Glasgow, Scotland
Died	16 January 1997 (aged 56); London, England
Political party	Conservative
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 Prince Edward School in Harare and 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 used to win a World Drivers' Championship.^[1] He married Gaynor Jeffries in 1971,^[1] and served as a councillor on Lichfield District Council from 1974 until 1976.

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 slender parliamentary majority months before the upcoming national election.^[2]

Sources

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Iain Mills". The Times. 17 January 1997. p. 19.
^ Sander, Hannah (10 August 2015). "Dolphin Square: The UK's most notorious address?". BBC. Retrieved 10 August 2015.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Tomlinson	Member of Parliament for Meriden 1979 – 1997	Succeeded by Caroline Spelman

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