Modern English biography

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). 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). MILLER, JOHN (3 son of rev. Peter Miller of Bockleton, Worcester, and Leysters, Herefordshire). _b._ Bockleton 20 Jany. 1787; ed. at St. Paul’s, London and Worcs. coll. Oxf., scholar 6 June 1806, fellow 4 June 1810; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; select preacher 1814; C. of Croft and Yarpole, Herefordshire 1814–18; Bampton lecturer 1817; C. of Bishopston, Wilts. 1818–21; R. of Benefield, Norths. 1822, resigned 1842; C. of Bockleton 1851 to May 1855, P.C. of Bockleton, May 1855 to death; author of The divine authority of holy scripture asserted, Bampton lectures 1817; A christian guide for plain people, especially for the poor, six sermons. Oxford 1820, 2 ed. 1821; Sermons to show a sober application of scriptural principles to the realities of life 1830; Conspectus of the Hampden case at Oxford 1836; Thoughts for the labouring classes among christians 1831, 3 ed. 1836; A safe path for humble churchmen, six sermons 1850. _d._ Bockleton 18 Jany. 1858. _J. M. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies_ (1875) 23–42; _Coleridge’s Memoir of Keble 2 ed._ (1869) _i_ 23–29; _G.M. iv_ 441–44 (1858). MILLER, JOHN. _b._ 5 Nov. 1810; bookseller at 27 Rathbone place, London 1833–6, at 404 Oxford st. 1836–47, at 361 Oxford st. 1847–8, at Chandos st. 1848–65 and at Green st. 1865 to death; published R. H. Horne’s famous farthing epic Orion 1843 and other books. _d._ London 10 Jany. 1873. MILLER, JOHN (son of James Miller, builder). _b._ Ayr 26 July 1805; in a solicitor’s office, Ayr 1818–23; in office of Thomas Grainger, civil engineer, Edinb. 1823, who took him into partnership 1825; constructed roads in Scotland and Ireland 1829–31; engineer of Dundee and Arbroath railway, of the Glasgow, Ayr and Kilmarnock and of the Edinburgh and Glasgow 1835; engineer of North British railway, of direct Northern railway from London to York, and of northern half of Great Northern railway; constructed many of finest viaducts in Great Britain, especially the Lugar viaduct; retired 1850; A.I.C.E. June 1830, M.I.C.E. May 1832; F.R.S. Edinb. 1841; M.P. city of Edinburgh 1868–74; purchased estates of Leithenhopes, Peebleshire, and Drumlithie, Kincardineshire. _d._ 2 Melville crescent, Edinburgh 7 May 1883. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv_ 286–9 (1883). MILLER, JOHN BIRMINGHAM. _b._ 1778; called to Irish bar 1811; Q.C. 1 July 1837. _d._ Kildare 1 Jany. 1855. MILLER, JOHN CALE (only son of John Miller). _b._ Margate, Kent 11 Oct. 1814; ed. Brompton gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Oxf.; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1834–6; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1857; C. of Bexley, Kent 1837; assistant curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1839, curate 1841–6; R. of St. Martin’s, Birmingham, June 1846 to March 1866; established a working men’s assoc. 1854; began special services in St. Martin’s ch. for the labouring classes Nov. 1856; V. of Greenwich 7 March 1866 to death; hon. canon of Worcester, Aug. 1852, canon and treasurer 31 Oct. 1871 to 1873; select preacher at Oxford 1867; canon of Rochester 1873 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Rochester 1877 to death; member for Greenwich of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to March 1872; author of Subjection, no not for an hour, a warning to protestant christians in behalf of the truth of the gospel as now imperilled by the Romish doctrines of the tractarian heresy 1850, 5 ed. 1850, which evoked several replies; Bible inspiration vindicated, an essay on “Essays and Reviews” 1861; A hymn book for church of England Sunday schools 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Letters to a young clergyman 1878 and 40 other books. _d._ Park place, Maze Hill, East Greenwich 11 July