Millie Lindon (born Fanny Elizabeth Warriss, 1 April 1869 – 11 March 1940) was an English music hall singer and socialite.
[1][4] In 1906 and 1909, she had two children with newspaper owner, Edward Hulton, the founder of the Daily Sketch, who was himself married at the time.
In his autobiography, he gave a vivid account of her lifestyle – "In the morning, she spent an hour or two making up her face, ate an enormous breakfast, wrote letters and pottered about among her rococo furniture before driving to lunch.
He also referred to a succession of her "gentleman friends", including a former president of Peru, a Uruguayan colonel, and a military man who she claimed was the original "Galloping Major" of the popular song.
[1] After Edward Hulton's death, she married Major General John Thompson in 1928; the couple divorced in 1937.