Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet

Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, of Manderston, Berwickshire (25 March 1809 – 10 October 1887) was a British Vice-Consul at Saint Petersburg in 1842–54, and a Member of Parliament for Leith Burghs in 1859–1868, for Berwickshire 1873/74, and an armiger.

Life[]

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.

Family[]

On 11 November 1858, Sir William Miller married 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, East Lothian (d. 1910); (2) 1919, Alfred Mitchell-Innes, of the Diplomatic Service (1864 - 1950).

References[]

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

External links[]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir William Miller