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.