Mill was educated by his father, with the advice and assistance of Jeremy Bentham and Francis Place. In addition, he was a Liberal MP for Westminster 1865-8, and as a young man in the 1830s edited the London and Westminster Review, a radical quarterly journal. Mill led an active career as an administrator in the East India Company from which he retired only when the Company's administrative functions in India were taken over by the British government following the Mutiny of 1857. Mill gave a vivid and moving account of his life, and especially of his extraordinary education, in the Autobiography 1873 that he wrote towards the end of his life. "Born in London in 1806, son of James Mill, philosopher, economist and senior official in the East India Company.
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