John Stuart Mill Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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 Philosophical Radicals