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.