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Miller, Edward
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Dates of existence
1915-2000
History
Edward Miller, known more commonly as Ted, was born in Northumbria on the 16th July 1915. He was the son of a farm steward, and was educated as a northern grammar school before coming up to Cambridge in 1934 to earn starred Firsts in both Parts of the Historical Tripos. In 1939, he was elected to a Research Fellowship, but took a six-year leave of absence in 1940 for war service; Miller served with the Durham Light Infantry, and then the British Control Commission in Germany.
After the war, Miller returned to Cambridge in order to teach. Throughout his time at the College, he was appointed as Director of Studies in History, Tutor, Assistant Lecturer, and Lecturer in History. He focused on the history of medieval England, publishing works such as The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely, The Agrarian History of England and Wales (drawing on his own youth) and the two-volume Medieval England. Miller also later became an Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, of which he was the second Master after a stint as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.
Miller married Fanny Salinger in 1941, and their son John went on to become a Professor of history at Queen Mary and Westfield College London. Miller died in Cambridge on the 21st December 2000.
Obituary in the Eagle, vol. 83, 2001, p. 80