![]() ![]() In 1829 he published a volume of poems, and soon afterwards became involved in political and religious controversies, first connected to the Reform Bill, and then with the division in the Church of Scotland which led to the Disruption of 1843. ![]() At 17 he was apprenticed to a stonemason, and his work in quarries, together with walks along the local shoreline, led him to the study of geology. Miller was subsequently expelled from the school following an unrelated incident. ![]() It was at this school that Miller was involved in an altercation with a classmate in which he stabbed his peer's thigh. He was educated in a parish school where he reportedly showed a love of reading. His father died in a shipwreck in 1807, and he was brought up by his mother and uncles. Both parents were from trading and artisan families in Cromarty. 1807), a shipmaster in the coasting trade. Miller was born in Cromarty, the first of three children of Harriet Wright ( bap. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |