Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet


Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, of Manderston, Berwickshire 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 from Wick, by his spouse Elizabeth, 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, the arms of William Miller, merchant, St.Petersburg, 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: