Wareham, Dorset). _b._ 1803; ed. at Downing coll. Camb., B.A.
1828, M.A. 1831; V. of Kings Somborne, Hants. 14 May 1831 to
1836; assumed name of Mill by r.l. 1835; created a baronet 16
March 1836. _d._ Mottisfont abbey near Romsey 20 Feb. 1860. _W.
Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 232–5.
MILL, JOHN STUART (eld. child of James Mill, philosopher
1773–1836). _b._ 13 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 20 May 1806;
ed. by his father; lived with sir Samuel Bentham in France
1820–1; a junior clerk in examiner’s office, India house 21 May
1823, an assistant 1828, chief of the office with £2000 a year
1856, retired with pension of £1500 a year on dissolution of
East India co. 1858; founded the Utilitarian society, winter
of 1822–3, the society read essays and discussed questions, it
lasted till 1826; wrote in the Westminster Review 1824–8; edited
Bentham’s Treatise upon evidence 5 vols. 1826; member of the
Speculative society 1826–9; proprietor of Westminster Review
1837–40; M.P. Westminster 1865–8; contested Westminster 18 Nov.
1868; chairman of the Jamaica committee to promote prosecution
of governor Eyre 1866; rector of Univ. of St. Andrews 1866;
author of A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive 2
vols. 1843, 11 ed. 1891; Essays on some unsettled questions of
political economy 1844, 2 ed. 1874; Principles of political
economy 2 vols. 1848, 6 ed. 1865; On liberty 1859; Dissertations
and discussions 4 vols. 1859–75. _d._ Avignon, France 8 May
1873. _J. S. Mill’s Autobiography_ (1867); _A. Bain’s J. S.
Mill, a criticism_ (1882); _J. Morley’s Miscellanies_, _ii_
239–327 (1877); _Caroline Fox’s Memories of old friends_ 2
_vols._ (1882), _passim_; _W. L. Courtney’s Life of J. S. Mill_
(1889); _I.L.N. xlviii_ 280, 281 (1886) _portrait_, _lxii_ 455,
456 (1873) _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 28 April 1866 p._ 264,
_portrait_; _English psychology translated from the French of
Th. Ribot_ (1873) 78–123; _Mind_, _No._ 14, _March 1879 p._ 211;
_The Examiner 17 May 1873 pp._ 502–18; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of
Edinb. viii_ 259–73 (1875); _Charles Bradlaugh’s Five dead men
whom I knew when living_ (1877) 14–18; _J. S. Mill and Abraham
Hayward, by W. D. Christie_ (1873).
MILL, WILLIAM HODGE (son of John Mill of Dundee). _b._ Hackney
near London 18 July 1792; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1809, fellow
1 Oct. 1814; 6 wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; D.D. Oxf.
1839; the first principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta 1820–38;
member of Bengal Asiatic society, vice pres. 1833–7; chaplain
to Wm. Howley, abp. of Canterbury 1839; Christian advocate at
Cambridge 1839; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb. and canon
of Ely Oct. 1848 to death; R. of Brasted, Kent 1843 to death;
author of Christa Sangita or the sacred history of our Lord
Jesus Christ in Sanscrit verse. Book 1, the infancy. Calcutta
1831, and of A Sanskrit translation of the Sermon on the Mount;
Observations on the attempted application of pantheistic
principles to the criticism of the gospel 2 parts 1840–44, 2 ed.
1861, and of many theological lectures and sermons. _d._ Brasted
25 Dec. 1853. _bur._ Ely cathedral 31 Dec., bust in rooms of
Bengal Asiatic Society, Calcutta. _G.M. xli_ 205–6 (1854).
MILLAR, REV. JAMES. Chaplain of Edinburgh Castle 16 May 1850 to
death. _d._ Edinburgh 7 May 1875.
MILLAR, JOHN, LORD CRAIGHILL (son of John Hepburn Millar of
Glasgow, merchant). _b._ 1817; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and
Edinb.; LL.D. Glasgow; called to bar 1842; advocate depute 1858,
1859 and 1866; solicitor general for Scotland 6 March 1867 and 4
March 1874; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; a lord of session 15 July 1874,
took courtesy title of Lord Craighill; a lord justiciary 4
March 1876. _d._ 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1888. _Law
Journal_, _xxiii_ 508 (1888).
MILLARD, JOHN. Elocution master at city of London school
21 years; professor of elocution at Royal academy of music
and Royal college of music to death; author of A grammar of
elocution 1869, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ 63 Lancaster road, Notting
hill, London 9 Aug. 1893. _John Millard’s Shakespeare for
recitation_ (1893).
MILLER, DAVID PRINCE. _b._ Mansfield, Notts. 1808; apprenticed
to a draper in Tottenham Court road, London; clerk in chambers
of Mr. Booth, barrister, Lincoln’s Inn; ran away from home,
employed in Richardson’s theatre at Portsmouth and at other
fairs 1832; a strolling conjuror at fairs in Great Britain
1832–39 and from 1848; first appeared at Glasgow fair July
1839; erected a wooden building for theatrical performances at
Glasgow 1839, when J. H. Alexander proceeded against him for
infringement of the Theatre royal patent, Miller was detained
in gaol 13 weeks; opened the Royal Adelphi theatre Glasgow 21
Dec. 1842, rebuilt the house at cost of £2000 and opened it
again 3 Oct. 1847; lessee of Queen’s theatre, Manchester for a
short time; gave an entertainment entitled The ups and downs
of life, at Concert hall, Liverpool, and at the National hall,
Holborn, London; contributed to Henry Mayhew’s London labour
and the London poor at salary of £2 per week 1850; a showman at
the great fair at Bayswater during Great Exhibition of 1851,
the fair was a failure; author of The life of a showman and the
managerial struggles of D. P. Miller, originally published in 12
parts April 1842 &c., 2 ed. 1849. _d._ Kent road, Glasgow 24 May
1873.
MILLER, FIENNES SANDERSON. _b._ 16 May 1783; major 6 dragoons 25
May 1809 to 15 May 1817; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Radway Grange,
Warws. 12 Sep. 1862.
MILLER, FREDERIC PEEL. _b._ Clapham, Surrey 29 July 1828;
first played with Dulwich and Streatham clubs; first played at
Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Surrey 2 June 1851; in the Surrey
eleven 1853; came into a fortune and gave large sums for the
publication of Lillywhite’s cricket scores vols. 1–4 (1863),
which but for him would have broken down; president of the
United All England eleven some seasons to 1857; in Australia
and New Zealand for his health 1870–2; retired into Somerset
1873; one of the most wonderful run getters; on committee of the
Surrey club and managed many of the great matches at the Oval.
_d._ Chilworthy near Chard 22 Nov. 1875. _Baily’s Mag. xxviii_
7–10 (1876); _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 236 (1863); _R.
Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 38, _portrait_; _Illust. Times
10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_.
MILLER, HENRY (2 son of Edward Miller). _b._ Radway,
Warwickshire 7 March 1828; matric. from Worcester coll. Oxf. 6
Feb. 1846; demy of Magd. coll. 1846–58, fellow 1858–61; B.A.
1850, M.A. 1852; C. of Littleham with Exmouth 1854; R. of
Radway, Warwickshire 1858–60; V. of Ashbury, Berkshire 1860 to
death; author of The question of interpretation plainly stated
in reference to certain views put forth by the authors of Essays
and Reviews 1861; Some account of the parish of Ashbury 1877.
_d._ 4 Feb. 1892. _J. R. Bloxam’s Magdalen college, Oxford_,
_vii_ 378 (1881).
MILLER, HUGH (son of Hugh Miller, lost in his trading-sloop
in the Moray firth 9 Nov. 1807). _b._ Cromarty 10 Oct. 1802;
apprenticed to a stonemason 1819–22; a journeyman mason in
different parts of Scotland 1822–34; accountant in branch
of Commercial bank at Cromarty, Dec. 1834 to Jany. 1840;
edited The Witness, an Edinburgh bi-weekly paper, organ of
the non-intrusionists Jany. 1840 to death; his part in the
free church movement 1839 to 1843 was only second to that of
Chalmers; author of Poems written in the leisure hours of a
journeyman mason 1829; The old red sandstone or new walks in an
old field 1841, 2 ed. 1842; First impressions of England and
its people 1847, 3 ed. 1861; Footprints of the creator, or the
Asterolepis of Stromness 1849, 2 ed. 1861; The testimony of the
rocks 1857; The cruise of the Betsey 1858; _shot himself_ at
Portobello near Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1856. _bur._ in the Grange
cemetery, bust by Wm. Brodie in national portrait gallery,
Edinburgh. _P. Bayne’s Life and letters of Hugh Miller_ (1871),
2 _portraits_; _H. Miller’s My schools and schoolmasters_
(1852); _H. Miller’s Footprints of the creator_ (1861), _memoir
by L. Agassiz pp. iii–xxxvii_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_
(1881) 405–12, _portrait_.
MILLER, JAMES (3 son of rev. James Miller 1777–1860). _b._ the
manse, Essie, Forfarshire 2 April 1812; ed. at St. Andrew’s
univ. 1824–7; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1832, F.R.C.S. Edinb.; assistant
to Robert Liston 1832–4, succeeded to his practice in Edinb.
1834; professor of surgery in univ. of Edinb. 30 July 1842 to
death; surgeon in ordinary, Scotland to prince Albert 8 July
1847 and to the Queen 17 April 1848; surgeon to royal infirmary,
Edinb.; professor of pictorial anatomy to school of design at
royal institution, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Principles
of surgery 1844 and Practice of surgery 1846, they were
amalgamated into A system of surgery 1864; Surgical experience
of chloroform 1848; Prostitution in relation to its cause and
cure 1859. _d._ Pinkhill near Edinburgh 17 June 1864. _bur._
in Grange cemetery Edinb. 22 June, bust by sir John Steell in
Medical mission house 56 George sq. Edinb. _Proc. of Royal Soc.
v_ 298 (1866); _Edinburgh Medical Journal_, _July 1864 pp._
92–6; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_;
_Catalogue of Surgeon-general’s office. Washington ix_ 311–12
(1888).
MILLER, JOHN (3 son of rev. Peter Miller of Bockleton,
Worcester, and Leysters, Herefordshire). _b._ Bockleton 20 Jany.
1787; ed. at St. Paul’s, London and Worcs. coll. Oxf., scholar
6 June 1806, fellow 4 June 1810; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; select
preacher 1814; C. of Croft and Yarpole, Herefordshire 1814–18;
Bampton lecturer 1817; C. of Bishopston, Wilts. 1818–21; R. of
Benefield, Norths. 1822, resigned 1842; C. of Bockleton 1851 to
May 1855, P.C. of Bockleton, May 1855 to death; author of The
divine authority of holy scripture asserted, Bampton lectures
1817; A christian guide for plain people, especially for the
poor, six sermons. Oxford 1820, 2 ed. 1821; Sermons to show a
sober application of scriptural principles to the realities
of life 1830; Conspectus of the Hampden case at Oxford 1836;
Thoughts for the labouring classes among christians 1831, 3 ed.
1836; A safe path for humble churchmen, six sermons 1850. _d._
Bockleton 18 Jany. 1858. _J. M. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three
Oxford worthies_ (1875) 23–42; _Coleridge’s Memoir of Keble 2
ed._ (1869) _i_ 23–29; _G.M. iv_ 441–44 (1858).
MILLER, JOHN. _b._ 5 Nov. 1810; bookseller at 27 Rathbone place,
London 1833–6, at 404 Oxford st. 1836–47, at 361 Oxford st.
1847–8, at Chandos st. 1848–65 and at Green st. 1865 to death;
published R. H. Horne’s famous farthing epic Orion 1843 and
other books. _d._ London 10 Jany. 1873.
MILLER, JOHN (son of James Miller, builder). _b._ Ayr 26
July 1805; in a solicitor’s office, Ayr 1818–23; in office
of Thomas Grainger, civil engineer, Edinb. 1823, who took
him into partnership 1825; constructed roads in Scotland and
Ireland 1829–31; engineer of Dundee and Arbroath railway,
of the Glasgow, Ayr and Kilmarnock and of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow 1835; engineer of North British railway, of direct
Northern railway from London to York, and of northern half of
Great Northern railway; constructed many of finest viaducts
in Great Britain, especially the Lugar viaduct; retired 1850;
A.I.C.E. June 1830, M.I.C.E. May 1832; F.R.S. Edinb. 1841; M.P.
city of Edinburgh 1868–74; purchased estates of Leithenhopes,
Peebleshire, and Drumlithie, Kincardineshire. _d._ 2 Melville
crescent, Edinburgh 7 May 1883. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of
C.E. lxxiv_ 286–9 (1883).
MILLER, JOHN BIRMINGHAM. _b._ 1778; called to Irish bar 1811;
Q.C. 1 July 1837. _d._ Kildare 1 Jany. 1855.
MILLER, JOHN CALE (only son of John Miller). _b._ Margate, Kent
11 Oct. 1814; ed. Brompton gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Oxf.;
scholar of Lincoln coll. 1834–6; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, B.D.
and D.D. 1857; C. of Bexley, Kent 1837; assistant curate of
Park chapel, Chelsea 1839, curate 1841–6; R. of St. Martin’s,
Birmingham, June 1846 to March 1866; established a working men’s
assoc. 1854; began special services in St. Martin’s ch. for the
labouring classes Nov. 1856; V. of Greenwich 7 March 1866 to
death; hon. canon of Worcester, Aug. 1852, canon and treasurer
31 Oct. 1871 to 1873; select preacher at Oxford 1867; canon of
Rochester 1873 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Rochester
1877 to death; member for Greenwich of London school board 29
Nov. 1870 to March 1872; author of Subjection, no not for an
hour, a warning to protestant christians in behalf of the truth
of the gospel as now imperilled by the Romish doctrines of
the tractarian heresy 1850, 5 ed. 1850, which evoked several
replies; Bible inspiration vindicated, an essay on “Essays and
Reviews” 1861; A hymn book for church of England Sunday schools
1862, 2 ed. 1862; Letters to a young clergyman 1878 and 40
other books. _d._ Park place, Maze Hill, East Greenwich 11 July
1880. _bur._ Shooter’s Hill cemet. 16 July. _Church of England
photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait No. 35_;
_Drawing-room portrait gallery 4th series_ (1860), _portrait No.
x_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1874) 199–208.
MILLER, JOHN FLETCHER. _b._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 20 June
1816; commenced keeping a meteorological register 1831; made
experiments on the fall of rain in the Lake district 1844,
erected pluviometers on the mountains 1846; his paper On the
meteorology of the Lake district sent to Royal Soc. of Edinb.
1 May 1854; had a grant from Royal Soc. of London towards
costs of his observations 1847, F.R.S. 6 June 1850; founded
an observatory 1849 and sent results of his observations to
Astronomische Nachrichten, Altona; A.I.C.E. 1851; entered Guy’s
hospital, London, Oct. 1855; Ph.D. and M.A. Göttingen; F.R.A.S.;
collected materials for a Physical geography of the English lake
and mountain district. _d._ 14 July 1856. _Min. of Proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xvi_ 166–70 (1857); _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of
Cumberland_, _vi_ 189–216 (1875).
MILLER, JOHN MOODIE. _b._ near Stirling 1826; printer at Leith;
issued The Edinburgh Times 1857; bookseller at Lindsay place,
Edinb. to death; published many books. _d._ Edinburgh 28 June
1884.
MILLER, JOSEPH. _b._ Carlisle 1797; partner with John Barnes as
manufacturers of marine steam engines in London 1822–35; made
the engines for many men of war and other ships; partner with
Richard Ravenhill 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 1834, left a legacy of
£5000 to the institution, which established a Miller medal to be
given with the premiums bearing his name; F.R.S. 30 March 1843.
_d._ Charleston, South Carolina 23 Feb. 1860. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xx_ 149–56 (1861).
MILLER, JOSIAH (son of rev. Edward Miller). _b._ Putney, Surrey
8 April 1832; studied at Highbury college; B.A. London 1853,
M.A. 1855; Independent pastor at Dorchester 1855, at Long
Sutton, Lincs. 1860, and at Newark 1868; secretary of British
Society for propagation of the gospel among the Jews; secretary
to London city mission to death; author of Our hymns, their
authors and origin 1866; Our dispensation, or the place we
occupy in the divine history of the world 1868; Singers and
songs of the church 2 ed. 1869; Christianum organum or the
inductive method in scripture and science 1870. _d._ 77 Fortess
road, Kentish town, London 22 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Abney Park
cemet. _Congregational yearbook_ (1882) 319.
MILLER, JOSHUA (son of Robert and Thomazine Miller). _bapt._
Whickham 1783; served in H.M.S. Pomona under Capt. Lobb 1805;
worked at the Bedlington iron works conveying goods down the
river to Blyth. _d._ Union workhouse, Morpeth 24 April 1872. _W.
J. Thom’s Longevity of man_ (1879) 119–29.
NOTE.--He claimed to have been born on 25 Oct. 1761 and to have been
one hundred and eleven.
MILLER, LYDIA FALCONER F. (dau. of Mr. Fraser of Inverness,
tradesman). _b._ about 1811; ed. at Edinburgh; lived with her
mother at Cromarty; took pupils 1833–6; _m._ 7 Jany. 1837 Hugh
Miller 1802–56, assisted him in editing The Witness, granted
civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1857; author under pseudonym
of Harriet Myrtle of A story-book of the seasons. Spring 1845;
A story-book of the seasons. Summer 1846; The man of snow and
other tales 1848; Home and its pleasures 1852; Amusing tales
1853; The ocean child 1857, 2 ed. 1858; Cats and dogs 1857, 3
ed. 1872; The dog and his cousins 1876; Stories of the cat 1877;
also of a novel on the disruption in the Scottish Kirk entitled
Passages in the life of an English heiress 1847, anon. _d._ at
her son-in-law’s manse, Lochinver, Sutherlandshire 11 March
1876. _bur._ Grange cemet. Edinb. 20 March.
MILLER, MAXWELL (3 son of Robert Miller of London, barrister).
_b._ London 1832; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; exhibitioner at
Worcester coll. Oxf. 1851; Fitzgerald scholar at Queen’s coll.
1851; went to Melbourne 1852; secretary to diocese of Melbourne;
one of the two inspectors of education for Victoria; one of
sub-editors of Argus newspaper; edited with his brother Wm.
Miller The Tasmanian Daily news about 1853–5; member for Hobart
Town of house of assembly 1856–63; introduced with Francis Smith
the scheme of superior education, which remained in force 25
years; assistant clerk to house of assembly 1863–7; author of
The Tasmanian house of assembly, a metrical catalogue. Hobart
1860; Financial condition of Tasmania 1862. _d._ Hobart Town 10
April 1867.
MILLER, PATRICK (son of rev. D. Miller of Cumnock, Kilmarnock).
_b._ 21 May 1782; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1804; extra
licentiate of coll. of physicians, London 10 April 1807; settled
as physician at Exeter; physician to Devon and Exeter hospital
1809; physician to St. Thomas’ lunatic asylum near Exeter 1822.
_d._ Mount Radford near Exeter 24 Dec. 1871. _Munk’s College of
physicians_, _iii_ 52 (1878); _Proc. of M. & C. Soc. vii_ 48
(1875).
MILLER, ROBERT (son of John Charles Miller of Mountjoy sq.
Dublin). _b._ about 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1822,
M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1826, went Midland circuit,
one of the 3 leaders of it many years; serjeant at law 7 Nov.
1850; judge of circuit No. 20 (Leicestershire and Rutland), 1
Jany. 1856 to death. _d._ 31 Leinster square, Hyde park, London
5 Aug. 1876.
MILLER, ROBERT KALLEY. _b._ 1843; ed. at Peterhouse, Camb.,
B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; professor of mathematics at royal naval
college, Greenwich 1873–85; author of The romance of astronomy
1873, 2 ed. 1875. _d._ Medbourn house, Tunbridge Wells 2 June
1889.
MILLER, SAMUEL (eld. son of Samuel Miller of Bedford row,
London). _b._ 1799; student Gray’s Inn 11 Jany. 1832 and
barrister 30 Jany. 1839; equity draftsman and conveyancer at
3 Old sq. Lincoln’s inn; author of Suggestions for a general
equalization of the land tax with a view to provide the means
of reducing the malt duties 1839, 3 ed. 1843; An essay on the
present state of the law respecting equitable mortgages by
deposit of deeds 1842; The law of equitable mortgages 1844; The
laws relating to the land tax 1849. _d._ St. John’s, Fulham near
London 2 Feb. 1852.
MILLER, SAMUEL. _b._ 1785; commission agent in London; an
active administrative reformer; known in the city of London by
his letters to the press on Corporation abuses, Magisterial
mistakes, and Defects of the old and new poor law. _d._ Powell
st. west, King sq. Goswell road, London 18 Feb. 1865.
MILLER, SAMUEL (son of rev. Mr. Miller, minister of Monikie).
_b._ Eassie manse, Forfarshire 2 March 1810; ed. St. Andrew’s
univ. 1824–30; presbyterian minister Monifieth, Sep. 1835 to
1843; free church minister Monifieth, preaching in a wooden
shed 1843–6; free church minister St. Matthew’s, Glasgow 1846
to death; D.D. of Princeton college, New Jersey 27 July 1847;
presented with his portrait 6 Nov. 1879; author of Discourse
before the general assembly of the free church of Scotland
1851. _d._ Glasgow, July 1881. _bur._ in the necropolis 8 July.
_J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 387–92; _Memorials of S.
Miller_ (1883), _biographical sketch pp. ix–lxiii_, _portrait_.
MILLER, SAMUEL CHRISTIE (2 son of Thomas Christie of Brooklands,
Broomfield, Essex). _b._ 1811; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyme
1847–59; assumed the name of Miller on succeeding to his
relative’s (William H. Miller) estate of Craigentinny,
Midlothian in 1862. _d._ Britwell court, Maidenhead, Berks. 5
April 1889.
MILLER, THOMAS (son of George Miller, wharfinger, _d._ 1810).
_b._ Gainsborough 31 Aug. 1807; apprenticed to a basket-maker;
a basket-maker at Swan’s yard, Long Row, Nottingham 1832–5,
at 33 Elliott’s row, St. George’s road, Southwark 1835–41; a
bookseller at 9 Newgate st. 1841–2, and at 17 Ludgate hill
1843–5; wrote tales for The London Journal; author of Songs of
the sea nymphs 1832; A day in the woods 1836; Beauties of the
country 1837; Rural Sketches 1839, 2 ed. 1862; Gideon Giles
the roper 1841; Godfrey Malvern or the life of an author 2
vols. 1842–3, 2 ed. 1857; History of the Anglo-Saxons from the
earliest period to the Norman conquest 1848, 3 ed. 1849; wrote
the fifth volume of G. W. Reynolds’s Mysteries of London 1846
and about 30 other books. _d._ 23 New st. Kennington park road,
London 24 Oct. 1874. _Wylie’s Old and new Nottingham_ (1853)
168, 207–10; _Thomas Cooper’s Life 4 ed._ (1873) 1–54.
MILLER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1786; 2 lieut. R.A 1 Oct. 1801, captain 2
April 1825, placed on h.p. 29 Aug. 1826; K.H. 1837; C.B. 4 April
1849. _d._ Silverton, co. Dublin 19 March 1852.
MILLER, WILLIAM. Deputy assistant commissary general 5 Aug.
1811, assistant commissary general 22 Oct. 1816, deputy
commissary general 20 Jany. 1837, commissary general 29 Dec.
1849, placed on h.p. Feb. 1852. _d._ July 1856.
MILLER, WILLIAM. _b._ Wingham, Kent 2 Dec. 1795; assistant
commissary R.A. 1 Jany. 1811; served in the Peninsula 1811–14;
went to La Plata, Sep. 1817; served in the Buenos Ayres
artillery in the struggle for Chilian independence Jany. 1818;
major commanding the marines on board the O’Higgins 50 guns
22 Dec. 1818; defeated the Spaniards at Pisco and assumed the
government of Yca, Aug. 1821; an intimate friend of Simon
Bolivar; made a general of brigade at Lima 1823 and a general of
division and commander-in-chief of the cavalry 1824; his charge
at the head of the Húsares de juria at the battle of Ayacucho
finally secured the liberties of Chili and Peru 9 Dec. 1824;
wounded many times, especially at battle of Pisco; governor of
Potosi 1825, returned to Europe 1826; received freedom of city
of Canterbury; returned to Peru and as commander-in-chief put
down an insurrection under general Gamarra 1834; took part in
every battle fought in Chili and Peru in the cause of South
American independence until 1839; British consul-general for the
islands of the Pacific 1843 to death; general Castilla refused
a settlement of his claims on the Peruvian government 1859.
_d._ on board H.M. ship Naiad in Callao harbour 31 Oct. 1861.
_bur._ in English cemetery at Bella Vista, Lima. _John Miller’s
Memoirs of general Miller_ 2 _vols._ (1829), _portrait_; _C.
R. Markham’s History of Peru_ (1892) 241, 550; _Foreign Office
List_ (1862) 164; _C. R. Markham’s War between Peru and Chili_
(1882) 25–7, 141.
MILLER, WILLIAM. _b._ Christchurch, Hants. 12 Jany. 1784;
imprisoned for debt at Winchester 1814; removed to queen’s
prison, Southwark July 1854, liberated Feb. 1862 after being 48
years in prison. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 180 (1861),
_portrait_.
MILLER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; chief cashier of bank of England on
retirement of Matthew Marshall 1864 to death; author of Tables
used at the bank of England for reducing the gross weight of
gold and silver to standard 1854. _d._ 4 Granville park terrace,
Blackheath, Kent 29 Nov. 1866.