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).