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.