Background
Hie was the son of Lieutenant-Commander Jack Duppa-Miller, Government College, and Barbara Miller (née Barbara Buckmaster, daughter of the first Viscount Buckmaster, a former Lord Chancellor).
Hie was the son of Lieutenant-Commander Jack Duppa-Miller, Government College, and Barbara Miller (née Barbara Buckmaster, daughter of the first Viscount Buckmaster, a former Lord Chancellor).
Educated at Eton College, Miller graduated from Merton College, Oxford in 1956 and the University of London in 1962, and then entered colonial service in Hong Kong.
Miller unsuccessfully fought Barrow-in-Furness in 1970, and Bromsgrove in a 1971 by-election. He is a former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party. After retiring from politics, he joined the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the trade association of the motor industry in the United Kingdom, as its chief executive.
He modernised and transformed the somewhat staid society by introducing and implementing a strategy of commercialisation.
After a four-year term, he resigned from SMMT to become managing director and later chairman of Cosmopolitan Textiles Limited, a United Kingdom-based subsidiary of the Hong Kong textile conglomerate Mingley Corporation with a brief to take the company into the auto industry. In 2005, he became a key supporter of Project Kimber.
This had been formed to keep MG sportscars British after MG Rover"s entry into administration in April of that year. Following the surprise sale of the entire assets of MG Rover and its subsidiary Powertrain Limited by the administrators, PricewaterhouseCoopers, to Nanjing Automotive Corporation against letters of cr to the reported value of £55m on 22 July 2005, Project Kimber developed a new business plan.
This focussed on a key element of the original MG plan, which was to acquire the rights to produce and sell a rebranded and re-engineered version of the successful smart roadster, that had sold at a rate of 15,000 cars per annum in Europe for the previous two years, from DaimlerChrysler.
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He served as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Bromsgrove and Redditch from February 1974 to 1983, and for Bromsgrove from 1983 until he retired in 1992.