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 the pseudonym ‘Phileleutherus Lipsiensis,’ vigorously defended his friend Mill in ‘Remarks upon a Late Discourse.’ Mill's labours on 1 John v. 7, supplied a mass of material for the well-known controversy respecting the authenticity of that text (, Annotationes Millii;, Full Enquiry).

In the Bodleian Library is a copy of Mill's Testament, with his own manuscript additions, and some by Hearne. Many of these have been printed in Griesbach's ‘Symbolæ criticæ’ (i. 245–304).

In 1710 Mill's New Testament was republished in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in 1723 at Leipzig, and again, in 1746, at Amsterdam, under the supervision of Kuster. Kuster added the readings of thirteen fresh manuscripts, supplied a preface, and inserted Le Clerc's letter on Mill's work to ‘C. Junius Optimianus,’ which had appeared in vol. xvi. of the ‘Bibliothèque Choisie.’ The first Dutch edition was regarded by Hearne as ‘downright knavery,’ but Kuster kept his own notes separate from those of Mill, and some of his collations are more complete. The ‘Prolegomena,’ with observations by Salthen, were reissued at Königsberg in 1733–4 and 1752.

To Mill are assigned ‘Dissertatio de Nilo et Euphrate terræ Sanctæ Terminis,’ published in Ugolino's ‘Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum’ (Venice, 1744), and the preface to Benson's ‘Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary’ ; the latter is often attributed to Thwaites. He supervised the edition of Malala's ‘Chronicle,’ published at Oxford in 1690, and thus became the recipient of Bentley's famous ‘Letter to Mill,’ printed with the ‘Chronicle.’ Prefixed to a copy of Simon Ford's ‘Conflagration of London,’ in the Bodleian Library, are some deplorable manuscript verses addressed by Mill, when a young man, to Dr. Thomas Barlow. A large number of Mill's notes for his Greek Testament, together with letters to and from eminent men of the time, are preserved in the library of Queen's College, Oxford. Letters from Mill to H. Wanley, Dr. Covel, and Dr. Hickes, are in the British Museum (Harl. MS. 3780, ff. 97, 98, 156, 157; Addit. MSS. 4253, f. 7, 22, 910, ff. 251, 256), and one from Grabe to Mill is among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Library (C. 851, f. 39).

Hearne, who frequently comments on Mill, gives an unpleasing impression of him as a man, though anxious to do him justice as a scholar and generous patron of scholars. According to Kennet (Lansdowne MS. 987, f. 187), he was ‘a ready extemporare preacher,’ but he only published one sermon (1676). Kennet also states that ‘he talked and wrote the best Latin of any man in the University, and was the most airy and facetious in conversation—in all respects a bright man.’

Portraits of Mill are in the dining hall of St. Edmund Hall, and in the common room gallery of Queen's College. The painting by P. Berchet has been engraved by Vandergucht. There is a representation of him presenting his Greek Testament to Queen Anne in the ‘Oxford Almanack’ for 1747, engraved by Vertue.



MILL, JOHN STUART (1806–1873), philosopher, eldest son of [q. v.], was born on 20 May 1806 at his father's house, 13 Rodney Street, Pentonville, London. He was a singularly precocious child, and was entirely educated by his father, who from the first carried out unflinchingly a severe system of training. The child was set when three years old to learn ‘vocables,’ or lists of Greek words with the English meanings. By his eighth year he had read many Greek authors, starting with ‘Æsop's Fables’ and Xenophon's ‘Anabasis,’ including Herodotus, parts of Lucian, Diogenes Laertius, and six 