Lawrence Heyworth Mills, DD, MA, (1837 – January 29, 1918), who generally published as L. H. Mills, was Professor of Zend Philology or the

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. Mills was born in

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to Philo L. Mills and Elizabeth Caroline Kane and attended school in Fairfax County, Virginia and in New York at

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and finally moved to Oxford in 1887. In 1887, Mills translated a portion, Gathas, of the

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texts of the

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into English. This translation, which included the Yasna, Visparad, Afrînagân, Gâhs, and miscellaneous fragments, were subsequently publication as in volume 31 of

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, as volume 3 of 3 of the series initiated by

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