Miller Baronets - Miller Baronets, of Manderston (1874)

Miller Baronets, of Manderston (1874)

• Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet (1809–1887)
• Sir James Percy Miller, 2nd Baronet (22 October 1864 – 22 January 1906). Miller was the eldest surviving son of Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet, by Mary Anne, daughter of John Farley Leith, a Queen's Counsel and Member of Parliament for Aberdeen. He was a Captain in the 14th Hussars from 1885 to 1892, and Adjutant from 1888 to 92 and served in the Second Boer War from 1900 where in 1901 he was second in command of the sixth battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. He was made an Hon. Major in the army in 1901 and became a full Major in the Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry from 1902. Miller was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Berwickshire. He was responsible for the commissioning of the complete rebuild of the magnificent Manderston House, near Duns, Berwickshire. His town residence was 45 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia, London. Miller married, 19 January 1893, Eveline (1864–1934) daughter of Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale (1831–1916) by his spouse Blanche (1837–1875), daughter of Joseph Pocklington Senhouse, of Netherhall. They had no issue, and he was succeeded by his brother John. In May 1890, Miller bought a Thoroughbred racehorse called Sainfoin. Less than a month later, the horse won the Epsom Derby.
• Sir John Alexander Miller, 3rd Baronet (27 September 1867 – 16 February 1918). Miller inherited the baronetcy from his brother, James Miller. In 1899 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and magistrate for Kent. At the time of his first marriage, 1889, John Alexander Miller was stated to be a bachelor and landed proprietor living at Manderston, Duns, Berwickshire. However by 1903 John Alexander Miller's country address is Bifrons, Patrixbourne, Canterbury, Kent. His town address was 31 Cadogan Square, Chelsea, London. He married three times: Firstly on 19 September 1889 in a Scottish Episcopalian service at Ayton Castle, Berwickshire, the family seat of the bride, Inez Mary (b. 1867, Toronto, Canada, d. 19 April 1938), eldest child of William Mitchell-Innes (1841–1879), Captain, 13th Hussars by his spouse Agnes (1850–?), daughter of Henry Young Hulbert (1812–1864). Inez divorced her husband on 1 February 1901. Secondly in 1901, London as her third husband, Ada Mary (1869–1938), daughter of Francis Henry Paget (1840–1921), Lieutenant Prince Albert's Own Leics. Yeo. Calvary, by his spouse Edith Mary (circa 1845–1889), daughter of William Henry Higgins (1818–1891), sometime Master of the Court of Bankruptcy. Ada divorced her husband in 1906. Sir John inherited the baronetcy upon his brother's death in 1906, and the following year married, thirdly, Eveline Frances (1869–1941), daughter of Colonel John Blencowe Cookson, C.B. (1843–1910), by his spouse, Constance Jane (1847–1926), daughter of George Fenwick, Esq., (1811–post 1861) There was no issue from any of the marriages and the baronetcy became extinct. Manderston was entailed to Amy, (Mrs Thomas Bailie), Sir John's eldest sister.