E. Morris Miller

Who was E. Morris Miller?

Edmund Morris Miller, CBE was an Australian author, professor, and vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania between 1933-1945.

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 State Library of Victoria. He enrolled at the University of Melbourne obtaining a B.A. and in 1907 an 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. Authors he described include Carlton Dawe, Simpson Newland, John Henry Nicholson and Hume Nisbet. In 1956 this book was revised and extended to include works to 1950, edited by Frederick T Macartney.

He also wrote Pressmen and Governors: Australian Editors and Writers in Early Tasmania.

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

Morris Miller was Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Tasmania from 1922 until his retirement in 1950, and Vice-Chancellor from 1933 to 1945. In 1930-40 Miller took pride in organizing the transfer from the Commonwealth, of a new site for the University at Sandy Bay.