Chapter XL: Part 40

MIDDLETON, SIR HENRY WILLOUGHBY, 8 Baron (1 son of Henry
Willoughby, M.P. 1780–1849). _b._ Apsley hall, Notts. 28 Aug.
1817; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; succeeded his cousin as 8
baron 5 Nov. 1856; capt. South Notts. yeomanry cavalry 1861;
hon. col. 1 brigade East Riding artillery volunteers 1862;
bought the Middleton pack from sir Tatton Sykes 1853, hunted
5 days a week at his sole expense to 1860, spending £20,000,
a guarantee fund of £2,000 was raised in 1860, master of the
hounds to his death; presented with a testimonial and his
portrait by Henry T. Wells, R.A. Dec. 1877; bought the parish
of West Bruton, Notts. 941 acres March 1857. _d._ Settrington
house, Birdsall, Yorks. 20 Dec. 1877. _Times 21 Dec. 1877 p._ 3;
_Baily’s Mag. x_ 269–71 (1865), _portrait_.

MIDDLETON, CHARLES. _b._ 1787; ensign 1 foot 19 Sep. 1804;
captain 22 light dragoons 25 Feb. 1810, placed on h.p. 25 Sep.
1820; captain 2 dragoon guards 10 Jany. 1822; lieut.-col. 3
dragoons 3 Dec. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1851; commandant of cavalry
depot, Maidstone 1 Jany. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; major 72 foot 16
June 1825, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._
Rockey hill terrace, Maidstone 23 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xliii_ 84
(1855).

MIDDLETON, SIR GEORGE NATHANIEL BROKE, 3 Baronet (4 son of sir
Philip Bowes Vere Broke 1776–1841, 1 Baronet). _b._ Plymouth 26
April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1821 etc.; entered R.N. 16 Aug.
1825; captain 18 Dec. 1845; commander of the Gladiator 1854; at
attack on Bomarsund, then in the Black Sea 1854–5; C.B. 5 July
1855; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 Feb. 1855; assumed
name of Middleton by r.l. 17 July 1860; sheriff of Suffolk
1864; admiral 22 Jany. 1877; rode to hounds when over seventy;
a liberal supporter of Suffolk sports. _d._ Shrublands near
Ipswich 14 Jany. 1887. _Baily’s Mag. xlvii_ 129 (1887).

MIDDLETON, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 1827; landscape painter at
Norwich; his landscapes were noted for their effective rendering
of the seasons of the year; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. and
15 at B.I. 1847–55. _d._ of consumption at Surrey st. Norwich 11
Nov. 1856.

MIDDLETON, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 1817; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1844, LL.D. 1849; member of college of
doctors of the law 2 Nov. 1849; steward of doctors’ commons
1860 to death; reported in the Court of probate and divorce,
his reports are comprised in The Law Reports, Courts of probate
and divorce vols. 1–3 (1869–75) and Probate division vols. 1–3
(1876–8). _d._ Marine lodge, Southend 6 March 1878. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _xxii_ 394 (1878).

MIDDLETON, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Wm. Middleton, solicitor, _d._
1885). _b._ Leeds 1838; solicitor at Leeds 1860 to death; a
founder of Leeds and county conservative club; vice president of
Incorporated law society, Leeds 1881, president 1882 and 1883;
member of council of Incorporated law society of the United
Kingdom 1883 to death. _d._ Fairfield, Far Headingley near Leeds
16 July 1887. _bur._ Chapel Allerton ch. near Leeds 19 July.
_Law Times 6 Aug. 1887 p._ 266.

MIDDLETON, JOSEPH (younger son of Joseph Middleton of Grove
house near Leeds). _b._ 28 March 1818; pupil of Thomas Chitty;
barrister M.T. 9 June 1843; went northern circuit; recorder of
Scarborough, June 1865 to death; author of Hyacinth, a poem and
lyrics 1840; Stanhope, a domestic novel 1845; Marmaduke Lorrimer
3 vols. 1850; Love versus law, or marriage with a deceased
wife’s sister 3 vols. 1855. _d._ Gibton grove, Roundhay near
Leeds 24 Dec. 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xvi_ 162 (1872).

MIDDLETON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Second lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1839,
colonel 10 Nov. 1868 to death; deputy adjutant general R.A. 1
Oct. 1870 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ on board royal mail
steamer Douro, bound for Lisbon 13 April 1875.

MIDDLETON, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of George Middleton). _b._
1846; cornet 12 lancers 9 May 1865, captain 4 Jany. 1871 to
11 July 1874 when he sold out; extra A.D.C. to lord lieut. of
Ireland 1870–4; first whip to the 12th lancers harriers 1865–6
and hunted the drag hounds at Ballincolley, co. Cork 1866–8;
rode his first steeple chase at Cork 1867; his horse Lord of
the Harem won 29 races; won the Irish grand military cup on
Waterford at Punchestown 1873 and 1874; the best rider to
hounds since James Mason; acted as pilot across country to the
empress of Austria during her 4 hunting visits to England and
Ireland 1876 and 1878–80; a cricketer and member of I. Zingari;
known as “Bay Middleton”; _killed_ while riding in the Midland
sportsman’s cup steeplechase at Herd Hill farm near Kineton,
Warwickshire 9 April 1892. _bur._ Haselbeck, Northamptonshire
14 April. _Baily’s Mag. xlv_ 1–2 (1886) _portrait_, _lvii_ 350
(1892); _Sporting Mirror_, _v_ 13 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
16 April 1892 p._ 479, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 23
April 1892 p._ 209, _portrait_.

MIDLETON, WILLIAM JOHN BRODRICK, 7 Viscount (3 son of hon.
Charles Brodrick, abp. of Cashel 1761–1822). _b._ 8 July 1798;
ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Ashstead,
Surrey 1822–25; R. of Castle Rising, Norfolk 1825–39; R. of
Bath 1839–54; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to
death; raised to rank of a viscount’s son by royal warrant 1849;
canon of Wells 1855–63; dean of Exeter 2 April 1863 resigned
Nov. 1867; succeeded his brother as 7 viscount 2 Dec. 1863;
author of Facts and documents, the negotiation between the
rector of Bath and the committee of the Weymouth house school.
Bath 1840. _d._ Peper Harow 29 Aug. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 283, 363
(1870); _Mayor’s Notabilia of Bath_ (1879) 197.

MIDWINTER, WILLIAM. _b._ Forest of Dean, Gloucs. 19 June 1852;
went to Australia; learnt cricket at Bendigo, Victoria; played
for Victoria against New South Wales in 9 matches 1875–87; came
to England 1877; played for Gloucestershire 1877–81; member of
the United South of England eleven; played for English team in
Australia 1881–2; played for Australian team in England 1884;
lessee of various hotels in Melbourne; went out of his mind
1889. _d._ Kew asylum near Melbourne 3 Dec. 1890. _W. G. Grace’s
Cricket_ (1891) 170, _portrait_.

MIERS, JOHN (son of a jeweller). _b._ London 25 Aug. 1789;
developed the mineral resources of Chili with lord Cochrane
1819–25; studied botany in England 1825; resided at Buenos
Ayres 1826–31 where he erected a mint for the government; an
engineer in Rio Janeiro 1831–8 where he also erected a mint
for the government; resided in London 1838 to death; F.L.S.
1839, wrote nearly 80 papers in its Transactions, chiefly on
South American plants; F.R.S. 9 March 1843; received grand
cross of order of Rose of Brazil; Lindley dedicated to him the
genus Miersia, a Chilian group of plants; author of Travels
in Chili and La Plata 2 vols. 1825; Illustrations of South
American plants 2 vols. 1850–7; Contributions to botany 3 vols.
1861–71; On the apocynaceæ of South America 1878; bequeathed his
botanical collection to British Museum. _d._ 84 Addison road,
Kensington, London 17 Oct. 1879. _Journal of botany_ (1880)
33–6, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Society_, _xxix_ 22–3 (1879).

MIGNAN, ROBERT. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. first European
regiment 3 May 1820, captain 11 Sep. 1830, major of the right
wing 15 Aug. 1847 to death; brevet lieut.-col. 7 June 1849;
author of Travels in Chaldæa, including a journey from Bussorah
to Bagdad, Hillah and Babylon performed on foot 1829; A winter
journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps and Georgia in
Koordistan 2 vols. 1839. _d._ Poonah 3 June 1852.

MIGNOT, LOUIS RÉMY (son of a confectioner at Baltimore). _b._
Charleston, South Carolina 1831; studied art in Holland;
opened a studio in New York about 1855; painted tropical
scenes in South America; associate member of Academy of design
1858, an academician 1859; came to London 1862; exhibited 8
landscapes at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1863–71; his picture The
source of Susquehannah was exhibited at Paris exposition 1867;
a collection of his paintings was exhibited in London after his
death. _d._ Brighton, Sep. 1870.

MILANO, JOHN, stage name of John Millingham (son of John
Millingham _d._ 18 Nov. 1874 aged 95). _b._ 1825; dancer at
Grecian saloon, London; harlequin at Sadler’s Wells theatre 7
Dec. 1851, at Surrey Dec. 1852, at Drury Lane Dec. 1853 and
Dec. 1854, at Haymarket Dec. 1855 and Dec. 1856, at Drury Lane
Dec. 1857, Dec. 1858 and Dec. 1859, at Princess’s Dec. 1862;
ballet master and arranger of ballets at many London theatres;
wrote with H. T. Arden, Harlequin prince Happy-go-lucky produced
at Alhambra palace London 26 Dec. 1871; _m._ (1) 1849 Thérese
Cushnie dancer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, she _d._ 22 Aug.
1857; _m._ (2) Minnie Sidney actress, she _d._ 9 Feb. 1873. _d._
191 Kennington road, London 20 Aug. 1874. _bur._ Brompton cemet.
24 Aug. _Era 23 Aug. 1874 p._ 4.

MILBANK, MARK (1 son of Wm. Milbank of Thorp Perrow, Yorks. _d._
1802). _b._ 2 May 1795; ed. Harrow, matric. from Oriel coll.
Oxf. 6 Nov. 1813; M.P. Camelford 1818–31; sheriff North riding
of Yorkshire 1837. _d._ Barningham park near Greta Bridge,
Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1881.

MILBANKE-HUSKISSON, SIR JOHN RALPH, 8 Baronet (eld. son of sir
John Peniston Milbanke of Halnaby, Yorks. 1776–1850). _b._ 5
Nov. or Dec. 1800; clerk in Foreign office 10 Oct. 1823; sec.
of legation at Frankfort 6 Sep. 1826; sec. of embassy at St.
Petersburg 28 Oct. 1835, and at Vienna 2 Oct. 1838; envoy
extraord. and minister plenipo. Munich 14 Nov. 1843 and at the
Hague 28 Oct. 1862, retired on a pension 29 Sep. 1867; succeeded
as 8 baronet 27 July 1850; assumed by r.l. surname of Huskisson
in compliance with will of Eliza Emily widow of rt. hon. William
Huskisson 5 Jany. 1866. _d._ Eartham house near Chichester 30
Dec. 1868. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Feb. 1869 p._ 110; _F.O.
List_, _Jany. 1869 p._ 188.

MILDMAY, CAREW ANTHONY ST. JOHN (9 son of sir Henry Paulet St.
John, 3 Baronet, who assumed surname of Mildmay by r.l. 8 Dec.
1790, _d._ 11 Nov. 1808). _b._ Winchester 2 Feb. 1800; ed. at
Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; student of
Inner Temple 1822; V. of Dogmersfield 1824; R. of the sinecure
rectory of Shorewell, Isle of Wight 1824 to death; V. of
Burnham, Essex 1827–58; R. of Chelmsford 1826 to death; chaplain
to bishop Wigram 1860; archdeacon of Essex 1861 to death; author
of Sermons 1879, which contain an In Memoriam pp. ix–xxiii. _d._
Homburg 13 July 1878. _bur._ Chelmsford.

MILES, CHARLES POPHAM (4 son of William Augustus Miles,
political writer, _d._ 1817). _b._ 1810; ed. at Morpeth gr.
sch.; midshipman in navy of H.E.I. Co.; studied at Caius coll.
Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1851; C. of St. Ann, Limehouse, and
chaplain of Sailors’ home, Wells st. London 1838–9; C. of St.
Luke, Chelsea 1839–41; C. of Bishopwearmouth 1841–3; incumbent
of St. Jude’s, Glasgow, Nov. 1843, his benefice was withdrawn
from episcopal jurisdiction after a controversy between him and
his bishop 1844; principal of Malta protestant college 1858–67;
V. of Monkwearmouth, Durham 1867–83; hon. canon of Durham 1872;
F.L.S.; author of Lectures on the book of the prophet Daniel
2 parts 1840–41; The voice of the reformation, an apology
for evangelical doctrines 1844; The Cyclopædia of religious
denominations 1853; The Scottish episcopal church, antagonistic
to the church of England in Scotland. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Great
Chesterford, Essex 10 July 1891. _John Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy_ (1848) 126–32.

MILES, GEORGE FRANCIS, known as Frank Miles (youngest son of
Robert Henry Wm. Miles, rector of Bingham, Notts.). _b._ 22
April 1852; studied art on the continent; worked in Wales some
time; painted portraits of princess of Wales and some members
of her family; best known for a series of portrait studies of
female heads, which had a great sale; introduced many Japanese
flowers into England; exhibited 8 portraits at R.A. 1874–80;
confined in Brislington asylum near Bristol 27 Dec. 1887 to
death. _d._ Brislington asylum 15 July 1891. _bur._ Almondsbury
near Bristol.

MILES, HENRY DOWNES. _b._ 1806; sub-editor of The Constitution
1833, which was started in opposition to The Times; subsequently
on The Crown; ring reporter to the London daily press and Bell’s
Life in London many years, retired 1871; edited The Sporting
Magazine; translated M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1846
and The Wandering Jew 1846; edited The licensed victuallers’
year book 1873, and The sportsman’s companion 1863–4, twelve
parts only; author of The life of J. Grimaldi 1838; Dick
Turpin 4 ed. 1845; Claude du Val 1850; The Anglo-Indian word
book 1858; The book of field sports and library of veterinary
knowledge 1860–63; Miles’ Modern practical farrier 1863–64;
English country life 1868–69; Pugilistica, being one hundred
and forty-four years of the history of British boxing 3 vols.
1880–81. _d._ Wood Green, Middlesex, Feb. 1889.

MILES, JOHN. _b._ Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 16 March
1813; entered house of Simpkin and Marshall, booksellers,
Stationers’ hall court 1829, admitted a partner 1836, became
senior partner, retired Oct. 1883; a vice president of the
Booksellers’ provident institution; master of the Stationers’
company 1883; governor of the New River co. to his death; built
and endowed All Saints’ church, Friern Barnet, Middlesex at a
cost of £15,000. _d._ Manor house, Friern Barnet, May 1886.
_Bookseller_, _June 1886 p._ 518.

MILES, JOHN WILLIAM (6 child of Philip John Miles of Leigh court
1774–1845). _b._ 21 June 1817; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1839, M.A. 1865; banker at Bristol; M.P. city of Bristol 30
April 1868, unseated June 1868. _d._ Underdown near Ledbury,
Herefordshire 5 Nov. 1878.

MILES, JOSEPH JOHNSON (son of John Miles, partner in Simpkin,
Marshall and co., booksellers). _b._ London 1811; entered house
of Hamilton and Adams 1826, became a partner 1832; chairman of
Mudie’s library co.; almoner of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 4
years; a director of the Improved industrial dwellings co. 1863;
a great philanthropist for many years; master of the Stationers’
co. 1882. _d._ Highgate 1 Nov. 1884. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 6
Nov. _Sunday Mag. May 1885 pp._ 294–8, _portrait_.

MILES, SIR PHILIP JOHN WILLIAM, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm.
Miles 1797–1878). _b._ 2 Sep. 1825; ed. Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb.; cornet 17 lancers 27 June 1845, lieut. 11 June 1847, sold
out 13 Oct. 1848; succeeded his father as 2 baronet 17 June
1878; M.P. East Somerset 1878–85; partner in banking house of
sir W. Miles, Corn st. Bristol; sheriff of Bristol 1853. _d._ 75
Cornwall gardens, Queen’s Gate, London 5 June 1888.

MILES, PHILIP WILLIAM SKINNER (5 child of Philip John Miles
1774–1845). _b._ 15 May 1816; ed. Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch.
Oxf. 15 May 1834; M.P. Bristol 1837–52; sheriff of Gloucester
1863. _d._ King’s Weston house near Bristol 1 Oct. 1881. _I.L.N.
viii_ 120 (1846) _portrait_, _xx_ 277 (1852) _portrait_.

MILES, SIBELLA ELIZABETH (dau. of John Westby Hatfield,
auctioneer in West Cornwall _d._ 1839 aged 72). _b._ Falmouth
28 Sep. 1800; kept a girls’ boarding school at Penzance to
1833; _m._ 13 Aug. 1833 at Madron, West Cornwall, Alfred Miles
commander R.N., he edited Horsburgh’s Indian directory 1841 and
1852, and _d._ Lympston, South Devon 28 Nov. 1851; author of
The wanderer of Scandinavia 2 vols. 1826; Moments of loneliness
1829; Fruits of solitude 1831; Essay on the factory question
1844, anon.; Leisure evenings or records of the past 1860;
The grotto of Neptune 1864; and some of the poems in part 2
of Original Cornish ballads 1846. _d._ 54 South Lambeth road,
London 29 March 1882. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1874) 355–6, 1282.

MILES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Miles, captain West Middlesex
militia, _d._ 1820). Cadet Bombay army 1799; ensign 1 Bombay
N.I. 6 March 1800; lieut.-col. 1 Bombay European regiment 1
May 1824; commanded his regiment in Tenasserim during first
Burmese war and captured Merjui; political resident at Palampore
1829–31; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 5 June 1829 to 28 July 1834;
comr. at Baroda 1831–2; retired M.G. 28 July 1834; translated
The Shajrat Ul Atrak or genealogical tree of the Turks and
Tartars 1838; translated for the Oriental translation fund two
works by Ali Kirmānā Husain namely History of Hydur Naik 1842
and History of the reign of Tipú Sultan 1844. _d._ North villa,
Regent’s park, London 21 May 1860.

MILES, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (brother of Philip Wm. Skinner
Miles 1816–81). _b._ 18 May 1797; ed. Eton, matric. from Ch.
Ch. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1815; student of Lincoln’s inn 1818; M.P.
Chippenham 1818–20; M.P. New Romney 1830–31; contested East
Somerset 1832; M.P. East Somerset 1834–65; chairman of Somerset
quarter sessions 1836–70; presented at the crown court Wells,
Oct. 1861, with his portrait by Frank Grant, R.A.; colonel of
north Somerset yeomanry cavalry 9 Aug. 1843 to Jany. 1867;
created baronet 19 April 1859. _d._ Leigh court, Bristol 17 June
1878.

MILEY, JOHN. _b._ co. Kildare about 1805; ed. at Maynooth and
Rome; R.C. curate of Dublin parish 1835; attended Daniel
O’Connell in Richmond Bridewell, Dublin, May 1844; went with
Daniel O’Connell to Genoa as his private chaplain March 1847,
O’Connell died 15 May 1847, Miley placed his heart in church
of St. Agatha, Rome, conveyed his body to Glasnevin cemetery,
Ireland, and preached his funeral sermon in Marlborough st.
church Dublin 4 Aug.; rector of the Irish college, Paris
1849–59; parish priest of Bray 1859 to death; author of Rome
under Paganism and the popes 1848; History of the papal states
3 vols. 1850; The temporal sovereignty of the popes 1856, vol.
1 only; L’Empereur Napoléon III. et la Papauté 1859. _d._ Bray
18 April 1861. _W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Correspondence of Daniel
O’Connell_, _ii_ 36, 457 (1888).

MILFORD, SAMUEL FREDERICK (eld. son of Samuel Frederick Milford
of Heavitree near Exeter). _b._ Exeter 16 Sep. 1797; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 10 May
1822; judge of diocesan ecclesiastical court Bristol; master in
equity of New South Wales and chief comr. of insolvent estates
Sep. 1842 to Jany. 1856; resident judge in district of Moreton
Bay (now Queensland) Jany. 1856 to Feb. 1859; judge of supreme
court of New South Wales at Sydney, judge of the court of
vice-admiralty and primary judge in equity Feb. 1859 to death.
_d._ Maitland, N.S.W. 26 May 1865.

MILL, JAMES. Educ. at Edinb. univ.; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; a
surgeon at Wick 1827–47; at Thurso 1847 to death; provost of
Thurso 1852–60 and 1865; sheriff depute; presented with a
carriage, a time piece and a silver tea service 1872. _d._
Thurso 27 June 1873. _Medical times_, _ii_ 81 (1873).

MILL, JOHN. _b._ St. Gennys, Cornwall 15 Sep. 1815; ed.
at Edinb. univ.; M.D.; editor of the Phrenological and
physiological library; sec. of the proposed National university
for technical and industrial training 1871; assisted R. A.
Caplin in her Women in the reign of queen Victoria 1876; author
of The fossil spirit, a boy’s dream of geology 1854; The claims
of Swedenborg, an oration 1856–7; The use of clairvoyance in
medicine 1858; Disraeli the author, orator and statesman 1863;
Primary, industrial and technical education, What to teach
and how to teach it 1871; The Ottomans in Europe or Turkey
in the present crisis with the Secret societies’ maps 1876.
_d._ Camberwell, London 26 June 1881. _Boase’s Collectanea
Cornubiensia_ (1890) 566.

MILL, SIR JOHN BARKER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Barker of
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.

MILLER, WILLIAM. _b._ Bridgegate, Glasgow, Aug. 1810; a
wood-turner at Glasgow till Nov. 1871; contributed poems to
periodicals; wrote songs in Whistle Binkie 1832–53, his Wee
Willie Winkie and other nursery lyrics gained for him the title
of ‘Laureate of the nursery’; author of Scottish nursery songs
and other poems 1863. _d._ at his son’s residence, Glasgow 20
Aug. 1872. _bur._ Tollcross graveyard, Glasgow, monument in
city necropolis. _Whistle Binkie_, _ii pp. xxvii–xxx_, 3 _etc._
(1878); _J. Grant Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland_, _ii_
334–40 (1877); _St. Paul’s Mag. May 1872 pp._ 489–91.

MILLER, WILLIAM (youngest son of George Miller, shawl
manufacturer). _b._ Edinburgh 28 May 1796; ed. at univ. of
Edinb.; apprenticed to Wm. Archibald, engraver 1811–5; pupil
of George Cooke in London 1819; landscape engraver in Edinb.
1821; engraved 19 plates for Williams’s Views in Greece;
engraved plates of many of Turner’s pictures, also of Clarkson
Stanfield and many other painters; engraved 44 plates for Hood’s
Poems illustrated by Birket Foster 1871; hon. member of Royal
Scottish academy; exhibited 2 landscapes at RA. London 1837–8;
a minister among the Friends 1841; resided at Millerfield
house, Edinb. _d._ at his daughter’s house, Sheffield 20 Jany.
1882. _W. F. Miller’s Catalogue of engravings by Wm. Miller_
(1866), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 181 (1882), _portrait_;
_Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888) 444–7.

MILLER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (3 son of James Miller of
Leith 1775–1855). _b._ Leith 25 March 1809; ed. Edinb. univ.;
merchant at St. Petersburgh 1832–54 and hon. British consul
there 16 years; M.P. Leith 1859–68; M.P. Berwickshire 1873–4;
cr. a baronet 24 March 1874; resided 1 Park lane, London. _d._
Manchester 10 Oct. 1887.

MILLER, WILLIAM ALLEN (son of Wm. Miller of the Borough,
London, brewer). _b._ Ipswich 17 Dec. 1817; ed. at Merchant
Taylors’ school and at a quaker’s seminary, Ackworth, Yorkshire;
apprenticed to his uncle Bowyer Vaux surgeon Birmingham 1833–8;
studied at King’s coll. London 1838–40, demonstrator of
chemistry there 1840; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1842; professor
of chemistry King’s coll. London 1845 to death; F.R.S. 6 Feb.
1845, member of council 1848–50 and 1855–7, treasurer 1861
to death; investigated with Dr. Huggins the spectra of the
heavenly bodies 1862, gold medal of royal astronom. soc. was
conferred upon them jointly 1867; gave a course of four lectures
on spectrum analysis at royal, institution May 1867; invented
a self-registering thermometer adapted to deep-sea soundings;
member of senate of univ. of London 1865 to death; member of
royal commission on scientific instruction 1870; assayer to the
Mint and Bank of England; a founder of Chemical Soc. 1841, twice
president; LL.D. Edinb. 1860, D.C.L. Oxf. 1868, LL.D. Camb.
1869; Rede’s lecturer at Camb. 1869; edited J. F. Daniell’s
Elements of meteorology 1845, his Introduction to the study
of inorganic chemistry appeared in T. N. Goodeve’s Text-books
of science 1871; author of On the importance of chemistry to
medicine 1845; Elements of chemistry, theoretical and practical
3 parts 1855–7, 6 ed. 1877–8; Practical hints to the medical
student 1867. _d._ Liverpool 30 Sep. 1870. _bur._ Norwood
cemetery near London. _Proc. of Royal Society_, _xix_ 19–26
(1871); _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889).

MILLER, WILLIAM HAIGH. _b._ 1812; chief of advance department of
National Provincial bank of England in London, retired after 44
years service Oct. 1879; author of The mirage of life 1850, 3
ed. 1884; The culture of pleasure 2 ed. 1872; The currency maze,
a sketch of the question without an end 1877; Life’s pleasure
garden 1884; On the bank’s threshold, or the young banker 1890;
The great rest giver 1891. _d._ 38 Lonsdale sq. Islington,
London 14 Sep. 1891.

MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (son of captain Miller of Velindre
near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire and of the British army).
_b._ Velindre 6 April 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 5
wrangler 1826; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, M.D. 1841; fellow of his
college 1829–44 and 1874 to death; professor of mineralogy
in univ. of Camb. 1832 to death; F.G.S. 1830; F.R.S. 8 Feb.
1838, foreign sec. 1856–73, royal medallist 1870; constructed
new standards of weight 1843, the old standards having been
ruined by the fire which consumed houses of parliament 1834;
LL.D. Dublin 1865; D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; knight of St. Maurice and
St. Lazare and of order of Leopold of Belgium; developed a
system of crystallography which has maintained its ground with
mineralogists; author of A treatise on crystallography 1839; The
elements of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics 1831, 4 ed. 1850; An
elementary treatise on the differential calculus 1833, 3 ed.
1843; Patrick Miller and steam navigation 1862. _d._ 7 Scroope
terrace, Cambridge 20 May 1880. _Quarterly journal of geological
society_, _xxxvii_ 44–47 (1881); _Proc. of royal society_,
_xxxi_ 2–7 (1881).

MILLER, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Miller captain royal horse
guards blue). _b._ Windsor May 1805; entered Madras artillery
18 Dec. 1823, lieut. 1 May 1824; commanded the artillery in the
Bundelkund campaign of 1858, lost his right arm at battle of
Banda 19 April 1858; aide de camp to the queen 26 April 1859;
C.B. 1 March 1861; M.G. 30 Sep. 1861; retired from the army
invalided 21 March 1860; president of Banda and Kirwee prize
committee; granted good service pension 11 Jany. 1865; published
a Letter to Bennett Woodcroft, Esq. F.R.S., vindicating right of
his grandfather Patrick Miller of Dalswinton to be regarded as
first inventor of practical steam navigation 1862. _d._ Kildare
gardens, Bayswater, London 15 May 1873.

MILLIGAN, ROBERT (son of John Milligan of Galloway). _b._
Dunnance, Kirkcudbright 10 Oct. 1786; head of firm of Milligan,
Forbes & Co. worsted merchants, Bradford; mayor of Bradford
1847–8; M.P. Bradford 1850–7; member of council of anti-corn law
league. _d._ Acacia house near Leeds 1 July 1862.

MILLIGAN, WILLIAM. _b._ at manse of Elie, Fifeshire 1819;
educ. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1862; professor of divinity and
biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 1860–93, emeritus professor
1893; junior clerk of general assembly of Church of Scotland
1875, senior clerk 1886, moderator 1882; Croall lecturer
1878–80; Baird lecturer 1885 and 1891; one of the New Testament
revisers; in A popular commentary on the New Testament 1879
etc. he wrote A commentary of the Revelation 1883 and with W.
F. Moulton A commentary on the gospel of St. John 1880; also
author of The decalogue and the Lord’s day, with a chapter on
confession of faith 1866; The resurrection of our Lord, six
lectures 1881; The revelation of St. John 1886; Elijah, his life
and times 1887. _d._ 39 Royal terrace, Edinburgh 11 Dec. 1893.
_I.L.N. 23 Dec. 1893 p._ 790, _portrait_.

MILLINGEN, JOHN GIDEON (son of Michael Millingen a Dutch
merchant). _b._ 9 Queen’s sq. Westminster 8 Sep. 1782; taken
to Paris 1790; matric. at the Ecole de Médecine and obtained
a medical degree; assistant surgeon 97 foot 26 Jany. 1802;
served in Egypt; surgeon 31 foot 16 Nov. 1809 to 26 May 1814;
served in all the Peninsular campaigns under Wellington and
Hill; principal surgeon of cavalry at Waterloo and surrender
of Paris; lived at Boulogne some time; connected with military
lunatic asylum at Chatham; resident physician to Middlesex
pauper lunatic asylum at Hanwell 1837–9; kept a private lunatic
asylum in Kensington; wrote libretto of Horn’s musical farce
The Bee-Hive, produced at Lyceum theatre 19 Jany. 1811; wrote
5 dramatic pieces, Ladies at home, Haymarket 7 Aug. 1819; The
illustrious stranger or married and buried, Drury lane 4 Oct.
1827; Who’ll lend me a wife, Victoria theatre 22 July 1834; The
miser’s daughter, Drury lane 24 Feb. 1835; Borrowed feathers,
Queen’s theatre 27 Feb. 1836; author of Sketches of ancient
and modern Boulogne 1826; Adventures of an Irish gentleman
1830; Curiosities of medical experience 2 vols. 1837; Stories
of Torres Vedras 3 vols. 1839; Aphorisms on the treatment and
management of the insane 1840; The history of duelling 2 vols.
1841; Jack Hornet or the march of intellect 1845; Mind and
matter illustrated by considerations on hereditary insanity
1847. _d._ London 1862. _J. G. Millingen’s Recollections
of republican France from 1790 to 1801_, _vol._ 1 (1848),
_portrait_.

MILLINGEN, JULIUS MICHAEL (son of James Millingen, archæologist
1774–1845). _b._ London 19 July 1800; ed. at Rome; studied at
univ, of Edinb. 1817–21; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1821; left England for
Corfu 27 Aug. 1823; spent some time with lord Byron at Metaxata
from Nov. 1823, attended him in his last illness at Missolonghi
where he died 19 April 1824; served as surgeon in the Greek
army until its surrender to the Turks 1823; a physician at
Constantinople 1827 to death; court physician to five successive
sultans; an original member and afterwards president of General
society of medicine; discovered the ruins of Aczani in Phrygia
and excavated the site of the temple of Jupiter Urius on the
Bosphorus; represented the Dutch government in the international
council of health at Constantinople; author of Memoirs of the
affairs of Greece, with anecdotes relating to lord Byron vol.
1 (1831); Arbitrary detention by the inquisition at Rome of
three protestant children in defiance of the will of their
father J. Millingen 1842; his MS. autobiography was burnt in
the fire at Pera 1870. _d._ Pera, Constantinople 30 Nov. 1878.
_bur._ Scutari cemet. 2 Dec. _Les bains orientaux, avec une
notice biographique de Jules van Millingen. Par le docteur S. S.
Mavrogény. Strasburg_ (1891), _portrait_; _Morning Post 12 Dec.
1878 p._ 5; _Times 17 Dec. 1878 p._ 10; _Moore’s Life of Byron_
(1847) 603, 635–8, 664.

NOTE.--He was married 3 times. His first wife, from whom he was divorced, was the authoress of Thirty years in the Harem 1872; she married (2) Mehemet Kibrizli Pasha afterwards grand vizier. The son Frederick Millingen became a Turk taking the name of Osman Bey and entered the Turkish army. Later on he gave lectures in European cities and wrote pamphlets on Turkish affairs. Finally he was baptized in the Greek church and became known in Russia as Alexei Andrejivich. He wrote numerous books 1870–90.

MILLINGTON, JAMES HEATH. _b._ Cork; entered schools of royal
academy, London 1826; painter of subject pictures, portraits and
miniatures; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 22 at
Suffolk st. 1831–71; curator of school of painting at the R.A. a
short time. _d._ London 1873.

MILLINGTON, JOHN. _b._ London 11 May 1779; a patent agent in
London many years; commenced lecturing at royal institution,
London 1815, professor of mechanics there 7 July 1817, gave
annual courses of lectures on natural philosophy, mechanics and
astronomy until 1829; an original fellow of Royal Astronomical
society of London 1820, secretary 14 Feb. 1823 to 10 Feb. 1826;
vice-president of Birkbeck’s London Mechanics’ institution;
chief engineer of silver mines and chief superintendent of a
mint in Mexico about 1830; professor of chemistry and natural
philosophy at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Virginia
1837; state geologist of Mississippi; author of An epitome of
the elementary principles of natural and experimental philosophy
1823, 2 ed. 1830; Elements of civil engineering. Philadelphia
1839. _d._ Williamsburg 10 July 1868. _bur._ Bruton parish
churchyard, Williamsburg, where is monument.