John Stuart Mill Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2016 8 25 1. Life. John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, then a northern suburb of London, to Harriet Barrow and James Mill. James Mill, a Scotsman, had been educated at Edinburgh University taught by, amongst others, Dugald Stewart and had moved to London in 1802, where he was to become a friend and prominent ally of Jeremy Bentham and the