Sir William Miller, Kays Portraits, 1799/1835.

[ SIR WILLIAM MILLER OF GLENLEE, BART. ] one of the Senators of the College of Justice. Dated 1799. THIS venerable Judge is the only son of Sir Thomas Miller, Bart., Lord President of the Court of Session, who died at his seat of Barskimming, in Ayrshire, in 1789. SIR WILLIAM was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1777. At the keenly contested election in 1780, he was returned M.P. for the city of Edinburgh, in opposition to Sir Laurence Dundas, and took his seat in Parliament; but he was unseated upon a petition, and his opponent declared duly elected. Copper etched print published in Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, 1837-8. Size 10 x 13.5 cms plus margins. Ref E394