Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet

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

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.

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

References

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