Selina Mills
Selina Anne Mills was a British schoolteacher who bought a girls school in Park Street, Bristol in December 1789 with her sisters Mary and Fanny, from Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Patty More, the sisters of Hannah More.
Family life
Mills was the daughter of the Bristol printer and bookseller, Thomas Mills. She went on to marry Zachary Macaulay in August 1799. The couple had been introduced to each other by Hannah More on 26 August 1799, who later, with her sister, Patty, attempted to frustrate their courtship. They settled in Clapham, Surrey. They had nine children, including:- Thomas Babington Macaulay, [1st Baron Macaulay|Thomas Babington Macaulay] the historian, poet and politician.
- Selina Macaulay
- Jean Macaulay
- Rev. John Macaulay
- Henry William Macaulay married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman.
- Frances Macaulay
- Hannah More Macaulay who married Sir [Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet|Sir Charles Trevelyan] and was the mother of Sir [George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet|Sir George Otto Trevelyan].
- Margaret Macaulay married Edward Cropper, son of James Cropper.
- Charles Zachary Macaulay