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Thomas Milles (1671–1740) was the
Church of Ireland
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bishop of
Waterford and Lismore.
Life
The eldest son of
Isaac Milles the elder, he was born at
Barley, Hertfordshire
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, on 19 June 1671. He matriculated at
Wadham College, Oxford
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Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...
, on 12 March 1689, was exhibitioner of the college in 1691–2, and graduated B.A. in 1692, M.A. in 1695, and B.D. in 1704.
Having been ordained by Bishop
John Hough, he became chaplain of
Christ Church, Oxford, in 1694, and was from 1695 to 1707 vice-principal of
St Edmund Hall. He was appointed
Regius Professor of Greek in 1705–1707. In April 1707 he went to Ireland as chaplain to the new lord-lieutenant,
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
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Background
Her ...
, and on 11 March 1708 was appointed bishop of Waterford and Lismore. He was consecrated in
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on 18 April.
Milles's appointment was unpopular in Ireland, on account of his
High Church
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views. As bishop, Milles took trouble to restore churches. After an episcopate of more than thirty years he died of
the stone at
Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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on 13 May 1740, and was buried in
Waterford Cathedral. He was unmarried, and left his property to his nephew Rev.
Jeremiah Milles (1714-1784), Dean of Exeter.
Works
Milles published in 1703 a folio edition of the works of
St Cyril of Jerusalem, with Greek and Latin notes. He wrote controversial tracts and sermons. He also published:
* ''The Natural Immortality of the Soul asserted and proved from Scripture and the first Fathers, in answer to Mr. Dodwell'', Oxford, 1707; 2nd ed. 1726.
* ''De Officio eorum qui de Fide certant; concio coram Acad. Oxon''. 1707.
An ''Account of the Life and Conversation of Isaac Milles of Highcleer''
is father London, 1721, is also attributed to him.
[Halkett and Laing, ''Dict. of Anonymous and Pseudon. Lit''. col. 22.]
References
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1671 births
1740 deaths
Bishops of Waterford and Lismore (Church of Ireland)
Regius Professors of Greek (University of Oxford)
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford