[1] During the Second World War Mills served as Controller-General of Machine Tools at the Ministry of Supply from 1940 to 1944.
[2] He earned Harold Macmillan's absolute confidence and was described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "one of the most politically influential industrialists of his time.
Following his departure from the Cabinet after the "Night of the Long Knives" he was made Viscount Mills, of Kensington in the County of London, in 1962.
[8] Lord Mills died in September 1968, aged 78, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son, Roger.
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