Hugh Miller

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. He was baptised at South Leith Parish Church in October 1850. The family lived at 2 Stuart Street at Jock's Lodge in Edinburgh. His father shot himself at their later home on Tower Street in Portobello in 1856. Miller attended Edinburgh Academy for one year (1859/60), then moved to the 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 in London (1869–1972).