Philip William Skinner Miles | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Bristol |
Term Start: | 22 July 1837 |
Term End: | 10 July 1852 |
Predecessor: | Richard Vyvyan Philip John Miles |
Successor: | Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley Henry Gore-Langton |
Alongside: | Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley |
Birth Date: | 1816 |
Birth Place: | Clifton, Bristol |
Death Place: | Kingsweston, Bristol |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Philip William Skinner Miles (1816 – 1 October 1881),[1] sometimes spelled Skynner Miles, was a British Conservative politician.[2] [3]
He was the son of Member of Parliament (MP) Philip John Miles and Clarissa née Peach.
Miles was elected a Conservative MP for Bristol at the 1837 general election and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election.[4] [2] [3]
Miles was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1863. He was Chairman of the Port and Pier Railway Company.
In 1846 Miles married Pamela Adelaide Napier (1823-1910), daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier and Caroline Amelia Fox. They had one child, Philip Napier Miles (1865–1935).[3] Miles died on 1 October 1881 at Kings Weston House aged 65.[5]