(1866), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 181 (1882), _portrait_;
_Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888) 444–7.
MILLER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (3 son of James Miller of
Leith 1775–1855). _b._ Leith 25 March 1809; ed. Edinb. univ.;
merchant at St. Petersburgh 1832–54 and hon. British consul
there 16 years; M.P. Leith 1859–68; M.P. Berwickshire 1873–4;
cr. a baronet 24 March 1874; resided 1 Park lane, London. _d._
Manchester 10 Oct. 1887.
MILLER, WILLIAM ALLEN (son of Wm. Miller of the Borough,
London, brewer). _b._ Ipswich 17 Dec. 1817; ed. at Merchant
Taylors’ school and at a quaker’s seminary, Ackworth, Yorkshire;
apprenticed to his uncle Bowyer Vaux surgeon Birmingham 1833–8;
studied at King’s coll. London 1838–40, demonstrator of
chemistry there 1840; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1842; professor
of chemistry King’s coll. London 1845 to death; F.R.S. 6 Feb.
1845, member of council 1848–50 and 1855–7, treasurer 1861
to death; investigated with Dr. Huggins the spectra of the
heavenly bodies 1862, gold medal of royal astronom. soc. was
conferred upon them jointly 1867; gave a course of four lectures
on spectrum analysis at royal, institution May 1867; invented
a self-registering thermometer adapted to deep-sea soundings;
member of senate of univ. of London 1865 to death; member of
royal commission on scientific instruction 1870; assayer to the
Mint and Bank of England; a founder of Chemical Soc. 1841, twice
president; LL.D. Edinb. 1860, D.C.L. Oxf. 1868, LL.D. Camb.
1869; Rede’s lecturer at Camb. 1869; edited J. F. Daniell’s
Elements of meteorology 1845, his Introduction to the study
of inorganic chemistry appeared in T. N. Goodeve’s Text-books
of science 1871; author of On the importance of chemistry to
medicine 1845; Elements of chemistry, theoretical and practical
3 parts 1855–7, 6 ed. 1877–8; Practical hints to the medical
student 1867. _d._ Liverpool 30 Sep. 1870. _bur._ Norwood
cemetery near London. _Proc. of Royal Society_, _xix_ 19–26
(1871); _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889).
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