Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, of Manderston

Manderston

Manderston House, Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, is the home of Adrian Bailie Nottage Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer. It was completely rebuilt between 1901 and 1903 and has sumptuous interiors with a silver plated staircase...

, Berwickshire

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(25 March 1809 – 10 October 1887) was British Vice-Consul at Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 1842-54, and a Member of Parliament

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 for Leith Burghs

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 1859 - 1868, for Berwickshire

Berwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 1873/74, and an armiger

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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

James Balfour Paul

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, 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.

On 11 November 1858 Sir William Miller married Mary Anne, daughter of John Farley Leith, Queen's Counsel

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, Member of Parliament

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 for Aberdeen

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, 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
  Alfred Mitchell-Innes
  Alfred Mitchell-Innes was a British diplomat, economist and author. He had the Grand Cross of the Medjidieh conferred upon him by Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt.-Family:...
  
  , of the Diplomatic Service (1864 - 1950).