John Cale Miller: a Victorian Rector of Birmingham

David E. H. Mole

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John Cale Miller: a Victorian Rector of Birmingham

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David E. H. Mole

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Among the evangelical leaders who flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century, surprisingly little has been written about J. C. Miller, who attained in Birmingham the same degree of importance as McNeile in Liverpool and Stowell in Manchester. He never became a bishop or a dean, no one wrote an official biography of him, and except for an article in the Dictionary of National Biography information about him is not readily available.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , April 1966 , pp. 95 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002204690005137X [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 95 note 1} D.N.B., xiii. 414 s.v. Miller (article by G. C. Boase).

^{page 95 note 2} Dale, A. W. W., Life of R. W. Dale of Birmingham, London 1899, 140Google Scholar.

^{page 95 note 3} J. T. Bunce, Birmingham Life Sixty Tears Ago, 21 (Birmingham Reference Library, Birmingham Collection, 284199.)

^{page 95 note 4} Ibid.

^{page 96 note 1} D.N.B., loc. cit.; Alumni Oxon., iii. 956.

^{page 97 note 1} J. T. Bunce, loc. cit.

^{page 97 note 2} C. H. Simpkinson, The Life and Work of Bishop Thorold, 89, quoting Bishop Thorold's Primary Charge, 1881 (not 1885, as Simpkinson says), 18. Balleine, G. R., A History of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England, London 1908, 241Google Scholar, adds the following sentence, though it is to be found neither in Simpkinson nor in the Charge: ‘His strong face, his broad shoulders, his ample form, his slow and stately tread were all reproduced in a will that knew no vacillation, and the dignity of a courage that feared neither friend nor foe’.

^{page 97 note 3} Bishop Thorold (Simpkinson, op. cit., 89) spoke of his ‘unsympathisingness’ and failure to attract men to him, but this was in his later years, and over against it must be ranged evidence from his time in Birmingham—Bunce's remarks, quoted above, that he was ‘on good terms with all classes and with men of widely different views’, and the testimony of G. D. Boyle, somewhat of a liberal in theology, that Miller, ‘although a strong partisan, always treated me with great consideration and kindness’: Recollections of the Dean of Salisbury, 208.

^{page 97 note 4} J. C. Miller, Farewell, 42.

^{page 98 note 1} J. C. Miller, Farewell, 43.

^{page 98 note 2} MS. Diary of W. W. Andrew, 13 February 1857. I am grateful to Professor Owen Chadwick for this reference. On the previous day, Andrew had written: ‘Ryle says he has written to several in power to make him a Bishop. I think he is not quite enough of the gentleman for i t …’.

^{page 98 note 3} J. T. Bunce, op. cit., 21; Birmingham Faces and Places, i. 84.

^{page 98 note 4} Thomas Anderton, Birmingham Churches Now, 11.

^{page 99 note 1} J. C. Miller, Our Office—Our Work—Our Master, 28n.; Preaching, 15, 27–8.

^{page 99 note 2} Aris's Birmingham Gazette, 12 April 1858, 2 May 1859; J. A. Langford, Modern Birmingham and its Institutions, i. 447; G. R. Balleine, A History of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England, 241–3; Hennell, M. M., “Evening Communion in the Church of England in the Nineteenth Century’, in Theology, xii (1959), 3–11CrossRef Google Scholar.

^{page 99 note 3} G. R. Balleine, op. cit., 241; J. C. Miller, Home-Heathen, 46; Aris's Birmingham Gazette, 10 July 1854.

^{page 100 note 1} J. C. Miller, Home-Heathen, 47.

^{page 100 note 2} Ibid.

^{page 100 note 3} J. C. Miller, The Church of the People, 11.

^{page 101 note 1} Ibid., 11–12.

^{page 101 note 2} J. C. Miller, Home-Heathen, 16.

^{page 101 note 3} J. C. Miller, The Church of the People, 13.

^{page 101 note 4} Ibid., 13–14.

^{page 101 note 5} J. C. Miller, The Dying Judge's Charge, 17–22.

^{page 101 note 6} Frederick Hine, The Age: Its Privileges and Requirements, 20.

^{page 102 note 1} J. C. Miller, The Dying Judge's Charge, 22.

^{page 102 note 2} Aris's Birmingham Gazette, 3 March 1851.

^{page 102 note 3} Ibid., 13 June 1853.

^{page 102 note 4} D.N.B., loc. cit.; J. C. Miller, The Dying Judge's Charge, vi-vii.

^{page 102 note 5} J. C. Miller, Earnest and Anxious Words, 9–13.

^{page 102 note 6} D.N.B., loc. cit.

^{page 103 note 1} Church Pastoral-Aid Society, Occasional Papers, xlii (October 1854), 5.

^{page 103 note 2} J. A. Langford, Modem Birmingham and its Institutions, ii. 262, 272.

^{page 103 note 3} J. A. Langford, op. cit., ii. 285.

^{page 103 note 4} C. H. Simpkinson, op. cit., 89, 124.

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