Sir Thomas Combe Miller, 6th

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(1781 – 29 June 1864), was an

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man and landowner. He was educated at

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Life

The second but eldest surviving son of

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, Miller became a

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priest and

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Froyle Froyle is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 3.6 miles (5.8 km) northeast of Alton. The nearest railway station is 2 miles (3.3 km) east of the village, at Bentley. According to the ...

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, in 1811. He was largely responsible for the rebuilding of the

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of the parish church in 1812. He had an elder brother, John Miller, who died in 1804, so in 1816 he inherited the family seat, Froyle Place, becoming both Vicar and

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of Froyle. For many years he had a curate named Aubutin who took care of the stained glass in the church. On 24 February 1820, when an election for the Hampshire county constituency was approaching, Miller wrote to

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, a successful candidate, to say that he would be away on polling day but would use his influence among his tenants to secure votes for Jervoise. Between 1803 and 1805, Miller was buying several pieces of land in

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. In 1846, he expanded his estate by buying a property near his Park at

, described as: "The Shrubbery, Froyle, comprising a dwelling house with outhouses, outbuildings gardens, lawn, a shrubbery, plantation and 2 pieces of meadow or pasture... along with coach houses, stables and other buildings with a yard and adjoining land. As well as Froyle, he inherited and was lord of the manors of Ludshott, which he sold in 1825 for £17,000, and Fishbourne in

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, which he sold to Edward Stanford. Miller's grandson, Sir Hubert Miller, said of him in 1936, "My grandfather hunted hard to hounds and drank two bottles of port with his dinner. I wonder he wasn’t sick." It was also reported that on hot Sunday mornings the sixth Baronet would smash the church windows with his walking stick to let air in.

Family

On 5 May 1824, Miller married Martha, daughter of the Rev. John Holmes. They had five sons, Sir Charles Hayes Miller, 7th Baronet (1829–1868), Sir Henry John Miller (born 1830), who became

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of the

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Thomas Edmund Miller (born 1832), George Miller CB (born 1833), Assistant Secretary in the Education Department, and Richard Combe Miller JP DL (born 1841); and three daughters, Marianne, Frances Margaret, and Georgina Emily.Ruvigny & Raineval, Marquis of, ''

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Thomas, Sir, 6th Baronet 1781 births 1864 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests Baronets in the Baronetage of England People from Froyle