Gerald Rusgrove Mills

Gerald Rusgrove Mills (3 January 1877 – 23 September 1928) was a publisher who, along with Charles Boon, established the publishing company Mills & Boon in 1908.

After attending Mason Science College (which later became the University of Birmingham) and Caius College, Cambridge, Mills started his association with the publishing industry when he joined the educational publishers Whitaker & Co. in London.

[1][2] In its early days, Mills & Boon was not an exclusive publisher of romantic fiction: it published general fiction, "travel guides, children’s and craft books", as well as "educational textbooks, socialist tracts and Shakespeare".

[3] The company continued to publish such titles till the unexpected death of Mills in 1928.

Gerald Mills married Rose Shawood Anderson in 1912; they had no children.