Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet

Sir John Mill, 1st Baronet (1 April 1587 – 1648) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1640.

[1] During the English Civil War he raised regiments of Horse and Foot that garrisoned Christchurch for King Charles I.

[4][6] Mill married twice; firstly Elizabeth More, daughter of Sir George More, of Loseley Park, but she died without issue and secondly, Anne Fleming, daughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Justice of England, with whom he had several children.

His eldest son Sir John Mill was killed fighting on the Royalist side in the Civil War[4] and had married Philadelphia Knollys, daughter of Sir Henry Knollys, of Grove Place, Hampshire, comptroller of the household to Charles I.

Their son, Sir John Mill, 2nd Baronet, succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy and inherited his (sequestered) estates.