Hugh Miller the younger
Hugh Miller
FRSE FGS (1850–1896) was a Scottish geologist, son of his more famous father, the geologist and folklorist Hugh Miller
.
Life
He was born on 15 July 1850 in Leith, the youngest of four children of Hugh Miller and his wife, Lydia Fraser.[a] He was baptised at South Leith Parish Church in October 1850.[2] The family lived at 2 Stuart Street at Jock's Lodge in Edinburgh.[3] His father shot himself at their later home on Tower Street in Portobello in 1856.
Miller attended
High School, then again to the Edinburgh Institution. He finally left Edinburgh to attend the Green Row Academy in Silloth. He then studied Geology at the Royal School of Mines[4]
in London (1869–1972).
In 1874 Miller joined the
Miller lived at 3 Douglas Crescent in
Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.[8]
Family
In 1878 Miller married Mrs Jane Morison Campbell, a widow.
Publications
- Landscape Geology (1884)
- Boulder Glaciation (1884)
- Otterburn and Elsdon (1887)
- Plashetts and Kielder (1889)
Notes
References
- S2CID 165673426.
- ^ s:Author talk:Hugh Miller (1850-1896)
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1853–4
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 464.
- ^ "British Geological Survey, Hugh Miller F.R.S.E., F.G.S.". Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1895-6
- ^ "2 Hugh Miller (1802-1856) – Grange Association Edinburgh".
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