Mills, Ernest Frederick (1914-2001), Fellow of Jesus College

• John Mills

Born in Rochford Essex. His father died during the First World War and his mother died when he was 15 years old.
He won a King's Scholarship to Westminster School and went from there to the London School of Economics.

1935 - 1939 he worked in South Wales on a number of projects but also served in the International Brigade in Spain.
At the outbreak of WWII he volunteered and joined the Queen's Royal Regiment, serving as an Infantry soldier for the duration of the war, notably in North Africa and Italy. He was mentioned in dispatches.
He refused to become an officer preferring to remain in the comradeship of the ranks.

After the war he worked in the Planning Dept of Westminster City Council and then of Middlesex County Council.
He studied for the Post-graduate Diploma in Town Planning at UCL which he obtained in 1952.
1953 - 1961 he worked for ICI as first the Planning Assistant and then Administrator in the Estates Department.

1961 he took up the Directorship of Estate Management at the University of Cambridge.
1964 made a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and that College's Director of Studies for Land Economy, also supervising in Economics.

In 1974 he became a Fellow of Jesus College and Director of Land Economy.
1975-1981 was the College's Estates Bursar.
1981 he retired and became an Emeritus Fellow.

In retirement he served as the College's Keeper of the Records (1984-1989) and Archivist (1982-1996).

Obituary College Magazine, 2002