E. Morris Miller

Edmund Morris Miller, CBE (1881 – 1964) was an Australian author.

Born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Miller moved with his family to Melbourne in 1883. He was educated at University High School and Wesley College. In 1900 he began working at the Public Library of Victoria. He enrolled at the University of Melbourne obtaining a B.A. and in 1907 a M.A. with 1st class honours in philosophy.

He, along with F. J. Broomfield, Sir John Quick and others wrote "Australian Literature from its Beginnings" (two volumes, 1940). Authors he described include Carlton Dawe, Simpson Newland, John Henry Nicholson and Hume Nisbet.

He also wrote "Pressmen and Governors: Australian Editors and Writers in Early Tasmania" (1952).

He was awarded the gold medal of the Australian Literature Society and elected a fellow of the British Psychological Society (1943) and of the International Institute of Arts and Letters.

Morris Miller was appointed Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Tasmania in 1928. In 1930-40 Miller took pride in organizing the transfer from the Commonwealth, of a new site for the University at Sandy Bay.The social science and humanities library on the Sandy Bay Campus at the University of Tasmania is named after [http://www.utas.edu.au/library/libs/mml/morrismiller.html Morris Miller] .

From 1924 Morris Miller was also president of the Mental Deficiency Board. A trustee of the Tasmanian Public Library, he became chairman in 1923 and was a founder of the Library Association of Australia in 1928.

References

*Michael Roe, John Reynolds, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100495b.htm Miller, Edmund Morris (1881 - 1964)] ', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 10, MUP, 1986, pp 507-509.