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 at Montrose Academy and Edinburgh University : studied philosophy : was licensed as a preacher in 1798, and became a tutor : went to London in 1802, for a literary career. In 1806 he began his History of British India, which he completed in 1818, writing, besides, largely for Periodicals, Reviews, the Encyclopcedia Britannica, etc., etc. : he was the friend of Bentham, Ricardo, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham, George Grote, etc., and held pronounced views on political economy, utilitarianism, etc. : has been called the founder of Philosophic Radicalism. He was appointed to the India Office in 1819 as an Assistant Examiner of Correspondence, and by 1830 was at the head of the office, and had great influence with his official superiors. Before the renewal of the E. I. Go's charter in 1833 he was examined for days before the House of Commons Committee, and did not advocate the application of his advanced views to India : he was the father of John Stuart Mill (q.v.) : died June 23, 1836. A new edition of his History was brought out, with notes by H. H. Wilson (q.v.).

MILL, JOHN STUART (1806–1873)

The philosopher : son of James Mill (q.v.): born May 20, 1806 : educated privately : he was never in India, but was connected with it by joining the India House as a junior clerk in 1823 : he was third in the office, on £1,200 a year, when his father died in 1836 : chief of the office in 1856, on £2,000 a year : he prepared, in 1858, the document in which the E. I. Co. stated their case against their threatened termination : when the statute of 1858 was passed and the government of the E. I. Co. came to an end. Mill retired on a pension of £1,500 a year. It is said that, for 23 years, he wrote all the political despatches from the India House : he wrote no single special work on India : died May 8, 1873.

MILL, REV. WILLIAM HODGE, D.D. (1792?–1853)

Born about 1792 : educated by Dr. Belsham, the Unitarian preacher : went to Cambridge : sixth Wrangler in 1813 : Fellow of Trinity College, 1814 : for 5 years studied Oriental languages : appointed Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, 1820, then recently established : learnt Sanskrit and the vernacular languages : published an Arabic version of the Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms : and the Christa Sangita, the Life of Christ, rendered into 5,000 stanzas of Sanskrit, his own compilation : gave much attention to education : was Vice-President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : deciphered the inscriptions on the Allahabad column, and wrote on the inscriptions on pillcirs and on the ancient history of India : returned to England, 1837 : failed as a candidate for the Sanskrit Professorship at Oxford : became Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1839 : and Christian Advocate at Cambridge, 1840 : also Regius Professor of Hebrew there, 1848, and a Canon of Ely : F.R.A.S. r a profound Oriental scholar : D.D. : died Dec. 25, 1853.

MILLER, SIR ALEXANDER EDWARD (1828–1903)

Born Aug. 28, 1828 : educated at Rugby and had a distinguished career at Trinity College, Dublin, 1851 : was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1854 : Q.C. and Bencher in 1872. From 1877–88 he was a Member of the Railway Commission : Knight Bachelor in 1889 : a Master in Lunacy from 1889 to 91 : Legal Member of the Governor-General's Supreme Council, 1891–6, when he retired : Honorary LL.D. in 1875, and C.S.I, in 189 : died at Ballycastle, County Antrim, Sep. 13, 1903.

MILLER, JOHN ONTARIO (1857–)

I.C.S. : born Aug. 7, 1857 : educated at King's College, Aberdeen : joined, in 1879, the Civil Service in the N.W.P. : Private Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor : rose to be Chief Secretary to the Government, N.W.P. and Oudh, 1898–1902 : Secretary to the Government of India in the Revenue Department, 1902–5 : Private Secretary to Lord Curzon and Lord Ampthill, Viceroys of India, 1903–4 : C.S.I., 1901 : Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, 1905.

MILLER, REV. WILLIAM (1838–

Born Jan. 13, 1838 : educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh : Principal of the Madras Christian College since 1863