Tom Knight describes the Miller family
in his “Historical Notes on Froyle”
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In 1770 Sir Thomas Miller, 5th Baronet,
formerly of Lavant, near Chichester, purchased Froyle Place with
the whole of the manorial rights. He was M.P. for Lewes, 1774
- 1778, and Portsmouth, 1806 - 1816. He died in 1816, but was
not buried at Froyle.
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The Rev. Sir Thomas Combe Miller,
6th Baronet (1816), second son of the 5th Baronet became vicar
of Froyle in 1811, and was largely responsible for the rebuilding
of the Nave in 1812. His elder brother, John, had died before
1816, so he became both Vicar and Lord of the Manor. Sir Thomas
Combe Miller, Bt. died in 1864.
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Sir Charles Hayes Miller, 7th Baronet
(1864), son of Sir Thomas Combe Miller. He founded Froyle School.
He died in 1868. Coffin in vault in churchyard.
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Sir C.J.Miller, 8th Baronet (1868),
(then a boy nine years of age). He went away to school,
and afterwards entered the Army, the affairs of the estate being
carried on by his uncle. He came back to Froyle in 1892, but
did not live at Froyle Place. Sir C.J.Hubert Miller died in 1940.
The first baronet, Sir Thomas
Miller, died in 1705, and is buried in Chichester Cathedral,
as is also the second baronet, Sir John Miller who died in 1721. |
