Samuel Milles Explained

Samuel Milles (c. 1669 – 10 December 1727) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1727.

Milles was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury in 1722 and held the seat to 1727.

Milles' daughter Mary married Henry Lee Warner MP for Hindon.^[1] Another daughter Anne, who was called the Beauty of Kent, died unmarried aged 20 in 1714 and was commemorated in Canterbury Cathedral by a white marble monument with her bust carved in white marble.^[2]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=9XFwZYYl3M4C&dq=%22Samuel+Milles%22&pg=PA804 David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley The House of Commons, 1690-1715, Volume 2
2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63674 Monuments in the cathedral, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 11 (1800), pp. 383-424. Date accessed: 21 November 2010