Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, of

Manderston Manderston House, Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, is the home of The Rt Hon. The 4th Baron Palmer. It was completely rebuilt between 1901 and 1903 and has sumptuous interiors with a silver-plated staircase. The proprietor, Sir James Miller, ...

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(25 March 1809 – 10 October 1887) was a British Vice-Consul at

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in 1842–54, and a

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for Leith Burghs in 1859–1868, for

1873/74, and an

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Life

The son of James Miller (1775–1855) from

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, by his spouse Elizabeth (d. 1862), daughter of Reverend William Sutherland, minister in Wick, he followed in his father's footsteps as a merchant trading in Imperial Russia. In an ''Ordinary of Scottish Arms'' (by Sir James Balfour Paul, Edinburgh 1903), the arms of William Miller, merchant, St.Petersburg (1853), were given as Argent, a cross moline azure square-pierced of the field within a bordure gules, on a chief of the last a garb between two mullets or.

Family

On 11 November 1858, Sir William Miller married Mary Anne, daughter of

John Farley Leith John Farley Leith, QC (5 May 1808 – 4 April 1887) was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. Life He was the eldest son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, of Barrach, Aberdeenshire, killed in 1814 at the Battle of Orthez with the 68th Regim ...

for

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, and they had issue: *

Sir James Miller, 2nd Baronet Sir James Percy Miller, 2nd Baronet, (22 October 1864 – 22 January 1906) was a British soldier, known as a racehorse owner. Over the 17 years when he had horses in training, Miller won 161 races, worth £114,005. Life Miller was the eldest su ...

of Manderston. * Sir John Alexander Miller, 3rd Baronet of Manderston. * Amy Elizabeth, who later inherited Manderston. She married, 1866, Major-General Thomas Manbourg Bailie, J.P. (1844 - 1918). * Eveline (d.1946), married (1) 1866, Richard Hunter of Thurston, East Lothian (d. 1910); (2) 1919,

Alfred Mitchell-Innes Alfred Mitchell-Innes (30 June 1864 – 13 February 1950) was a British diplomat, economist and author. He had the Grand Cross of the Order of Medjidieh conferred upon him by Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt. He served as the first president of ...

, of the Diplomatic Service (1864 - 1950).

References

* ''Burke's Peerage & Baronetage'', 61st edition, London, 1899.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, William 1809 births 1887 deaths People from Berwickshire British diplomats Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies Miller, Sir William, 1st Baronet UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 Scottish Liberal Party MPs