Mill, JOHN

Mill, JOHN, a New Testament critic, was born about 1645, at Shap in Westmorland, entered Queen's College, Oxford, as servitor in 1661, and was successively fellow and tutor of his college, rector of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire (1681), principal of St Edmund's Hall (1685), and prebendary of Canterbury (1704). He died 23d June 1707, just fourteen days after the publication of his great Novum Testamentum Graecum, with its thirty thousand various readings, the labour of thirty years.