Abraham Mills (geologist)

In 1783 he was leasing property at Gerston near West Alvington in the same area; his brother Henry Mills was a timber merchant at Rotherhithe.

In search of fresh supplies, it purchased disused Irish copper mines in County Wicklow.

[8] Mills played a major part in the relocation of Roe and Co.'s smelter from Toxteth on Merseyside to a site on the River Neath in South Wales.

Land was on a lease from George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (landlord from 1793) to Richard Parsons, who sublet to Mills and Edward Hawkins.

[17][18] A visit to Islay, where Roe & Co. had a mine that had just closed, led to a paper in the 1790 New Annual Register, Observations on the Whyn Dykes of Ilay.

John Lloyd challenged him on the point, and he published On the Strata and Volcanic Appearances in the North of Ireland and Western Islands of Scotland (1790);[20] in the geological debate of the time, this paper made Mills a supporter of the igneous theory.

[22][23] Mills also wrote: Evening Mail 12 March 1828 – Deaths: On Sunday, 2nd instant, at Bodlendeb, near Conway, Caernarvonshire, in the 79th year of his age, deeply & universally lamented by his relatives & friends, Abraham Mills Esq., F.R.S., late one of the officers in His Majesty's Ordnance department.