▶Date of birth:  14 August 1813        Place of birth: London, Middlesex

▶Father:  Robert Miller, of Marylebone, London     Mother:  Catherine Burrington

▶Spouse(s): Susan Cave     Date(s) of marriage:  19 February 1847     Place(s) of marriage: St Morgan’s, Monmouthshire

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: George was the eldest son of Robert and Catherine Miller, of Blackheath Park, London. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1832, BA 1836. MA 1839, and was ordained Deacon (Rochester) in 1837, and Priest (Chichester) in 1838. In 1837 he was appointed Curate of All Saints Church, Heathfield, Sussex, and in 1839 became Perpetual Curate of St Peter’s, Morley, near Leeds until 1841 (a living in the gift of the Earl of Cardigan), when he was presented with the vicarage of St Bridget’s Church, Skenfrith, Monmouthshire 1841-6. In 1846 he accepted the post of Perpetual Curate of St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Woodkirk, Yorkshire, where he stayed until 1872.

In 1847, soon after leaving Skenfrith, he married Susan, eldest daughter of George Cave, of Hillstonhouse, Monmouthshire; they had four sons and a daughter. In 1871 he and his family moved south when he was licensed by the Bishop of Bath and Wells as Curate of Christ Church, Nailsea, Somerset; by 1874 he served as acting Vicar while the incumbent was unwell. In Nailsea he established a fund to replace the church organ. In late 1876 he and his family moved into Chargrove House, Shurdington Road, Cheltenham, and from June 1879 he relocated to Pittville until 1882, when the family moved to 12 Wellington Square until his death in late 1891; his son Herbert Gordon Miller was the curate of St Mary’s, Cheltenham, from 1879 until 1892.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Shurdington Road, Cheltenham      Moved from Pittville to: (deceased)

▶Date of death:  13 December 1891      Place of death: 12 Wellington Square, Pittville

▶Date of burial:  18 December 1891       Place of burial: Cheltenham Cemetery

▶Notes:        ID: 6435

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden