Charles William Miles
Charles William Miles (1823 – 1892)[1] was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1882 to 1885.
Miles was elected member of parliament (MP) for Malmesbury, Wiltshire in the 1882 by-election.[1] This was after the former MP, Walter Powell, had disappeared and was presumed dead from a balloon accident.
Miles was the son of Philip John Miles, MP, by his second wife Clarissa Peach.[1][2] He married Maria Susanna Hill, daughter of Jeremiah Hill, on 14th April 1853 and had six children.
- Colonel Charles Napier Miles (1854 - 1918), Army officer and cricketer
- Audley Charles Miles (1855 - 1919), father of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Miles
- Vivien Charles Miles (1857 - )
- Clarissa Miles (1860 - )
- Mary Miles (1862 - 1937)
- Marguerite Agaranthe Miles (1869 - 1943) who married Sir Charles Tennant, Bt
References
- 1 2 3 Mair, Robert Henry (1883). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench. p. 162.
- ↑ Cave, Charles Henry (1899). A History of Banking in Bristol from 1750 to 1899. Priv. print., W. C. Hemmons. p. 245.