Background
The second but eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Miller, 5th Baronet, Miller became a Church of England priest and Vicar of Froyle, Hampshire, in 1811.
The second but eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Miller, 5th Baronet, Miller became a Church of England priest and Vicar of Froyle, Hampshire, in 1811.
He was educated at Street John"s College, Cambridge.
He was largely responsible for the rebuilding of the nave of the parish church in 1812. He had an elder brother, John Miller, who died in 1804, so in 1816 he inherited the family seat, Froyle Place, becoming both Vicar and Lord of the manor of Froyle. Foreign many years he had a curate named Aubutin who took care of the stained glass in the church.
On 24 February 1820, when an election for the Hampshire county constituency was approaching, Miller wrote to George Purefoy-Jervoise, a successful candidate, to say that he would be away on polling day but would use his influence among his tenants to secure votes for Jervoise.
On 5 May 1824, Miller married Martha, daughter of the Review John Holmes. Between 1803 and 1805, Miller was buying several pieces of land in Holybourne.
In 1846, he expanded his estate by buying a property near his Park at Froyle, described as: "The Shrubbery, Froyle, comprising a dwelling house with outhouses, outbuildings gardens, lawn, a shrubbery, plantation and 2 pieces of meadow or pasture.. along with coach houses, stables and other buildings with a yard and adjoining land. As well as Froyle, he inherited and was lord of the manors of Ludshott, which he sold in 1825 for £17,000, and Fishbourne in Sussex, which he sold to Edward Stanford.
Miller"s grandson, Sir Hubert Miller, said of him in 1936, "My grandfather hunted hard to hounds and drank two bottles of port with his dinner.
I wonder he wasn’t sick." lieutenant was also reported that on hot Sunday mornings the sixth Baronet would smash the church windows with his walking stick to let air in.