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).