Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet
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Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, of Manderston, Berwickshire (25 March 1809 – 10 October 1887) was British Vice-Consul at Saint Petersburg 1842-54, and a Member of Parliament for Leith Burghs 1859 - 1868, for Berwickshire 1873/74, and an armiger.
The son of James Miller (1775 - 1855) from Wick, 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.
Sir William Miller married, November 11, 1858, Mary Anne, daughter of John Farley Leith, Queen's Counsel, Member of Parliament for Aberdeen, and they had issue:
- Sir James Miller, 2nd Baronet 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, Haddingtonshire (d. 1910); (2) 1919, Alfred Mitchell-Innes, of the Diplomatic Service (1864 - 1950).
[edit] References
- Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 61st edition, London, 1899.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by James Moncreiff |
Member of Parliament for Leith Burghs 1859–1868 |
Succeeded by Robert Andrew Macfie |
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Member of Parliament for Berwickshire 1873–1874 |
Succeeded by ' |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baronet (of Manderston, Berwickshire) 1874–1887 |
Succeeded by James Miller |
