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).