Lawrence Heyworth Mills

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| name = Lawrence Heyworth Mills

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| birth_date = 1837

| birth_place = New York, New York

| death_date = {{Death date|1918|01|29}}

| death_place = Oxford, England, United Kingdom

| nationality = American and British

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| occupation = Professor

| years_active = 1880s?-1910s

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Lawrence Heyworth Mills, DD, MA, (1837 – January 29, 1918), who generally published as L. H. Mills, was Professor of Zend Philology or the Persian language at Oxford University.{{cite book |last=Mills |first=L. H. |date=1913 |title=Our Own Religion in Ancient Persia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GVtAAAAIAAJ&q=Lawrence+Heyworth+Mills+Oxford+University+Persian&pg=PA148 |publisher=Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus |page=148 |accessdate=September 8, 2015}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=OytRAAAAYAAJ&q=Lawrence+Heyworth+Mills+Oxford+University+Persian Oxford University Calendar], page 64, 1913

Mills was born in New York City to Philo L. Mills and Elizabeth Caroline Kane and attended school in Fairfax County, Virginia and in New York at New York University and finally moved to Oxford in 1887.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19180131&id=d48jAAAAIBAJ&pg=3776,3716396&hl=en|title=Condensed Telegrams|date=January 31, 1918|newspaper=Reading Eagle|accessdate=September 8, 2015}}

In 1887, Mills translated a portion, Gathas, of the Avestan language texts of the Avesta into English.{{cite book |last1=Stausberg |first1=Michael |last2=Sohrab-Dinshaw |first2=Yuhan |last3=Tessmann |first3=Anna |date=2015 |title=The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YT-kBgAAQBAJ&q=Lawrence+Heyworth+Mills+Oxford+University+Persian&pg=PA332-IA12 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |page=332 |isbn=978-1444331356 |accessdate=September 8, 2015}} This translation, which included the Yasna, Visparad, Afrînagân, Gâhs, and miscellaneous fragments, were subsequently publication as in volume 31 of Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East, as volume 3 of 3 of the series initiated by James Darmesteter.