Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet

Who was Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet?

Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, of Manderston, Berwickshire was a 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 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.

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:

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..

Eveline, married 1866, Richard Hunter of Thurston, East Lothian; 1919, Alfred Mitchell-Innes, of the Diplomatic Service.