Modern English biography

photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait No. 35_; _Drawing-room portrait gallery 4th series_ (1860), _portrait No. x_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1874) 199–208. MILLER, JOHN FLETCHER. _b._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 20 June 1816; commenced keeping a meteorological register 1831; made experiments on the fall of rain in the Lake district 1844, erected pluviometers on the mountains 1846; his paper On the meteorology of the Lake district sent to Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1 May 1854; had a grant from Royal Soc. of London towards costs of his observations 1847, F.R.S. 6 June 1850; founded an observatory 1849 and sent results of his observations to Astronomische Nachrichten, Altona; A.I.C.E. 1851; entered Guy’s hospital, London, Oct. 1855; Ph.D. and M.A. Göttingen; F.R.A.S.; collected materials for a Physical geography of the English lake and mountain district. _d._ 14 July 1856. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_ 166–70 (1857); _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_, _vi_ 189–216 (1875). MILLER, JOHN MOODIE. _b._ near Stirling 1826; printer at Leith; issued The Edinburgh Times 1857; bookseller at Lindsay place, Edinb. to death; published many books. _d._ Edinburgh 28 June 1884. MILLER, JOSEPH. _b._ Carlisle 1797; partner with John Barnes as manufacturers of marine steam engines in London 1822–35; made the engines for many men of war and other ships; partner with Richard Ravenhill 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 1834, left a legacy of £5000 to the institution, which established a Miller medal to be given with the premiums bearing his name; F.R.S. 30 March 1843. _d._ Charleston, South Carolina 23 Feb. 1860. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 149–56 (1861). MILLER, JOSIAH (son of rev. Edward Miller). _b._ Putney, Surrey 8 April 1832; studied at Highbury college; B.A. London 1853, M.A. 1855; Independent pastor at Dorchester 1855, at Long Sutton, Lincs. 1860, and at Newark 1868; secretary of British Society for propagation of the gospel among the Jews; secretary to London city mission to death; author of Our hymns, their authors and origin 1866; Our dispensation, or the place we occupy in the divine history of the world 1868; Singers and songs of the church 2 ed. 1869; Christianum organum or the inductive method in scripture and science 1870. _d._ 77 Fortess road, Kentish town, London 22 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Abney Park cemet. _Congregational yearbook_ (1882) 319. MILLER, JOSHUA (son of Robert and Thomazine Miller). _bapt._ Whickham 1783; served in H.M.S. Pomona under Capt. Lobb 1805; worked at the Bedlington iron works conveying goods down the river to Blyth. _d._ Union workhouse, Morpeth 24 April 1872. _W. J. Thom’s Longevity of man_ (1879) 119–29. 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