Modern English biography

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.