Edwin Swainson Miller and Helen Beatrice Liardet


Dr. Edwin Swainson Miller, Royal Naval surgeon
Edwin Swainson Miller
1869-1945

Helen Beatrice Liardet, wife of Edwin Swainson Miller
Helen Beatrice Liardet
1885-1965



Dr. Edwin Swainson Miller was born in Liverpool February 7, 1869, the son of William Charles Miller, a shipbroker, and Lucy Swainson. He was educated at Shrewsbury School in Shropshire, received his degree of Bachelor of Medicine at University College, Liverpool Medical School and a Bachelor of Surgery at Victoria University in British Columbia. In 1895 he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1920 with the rank of surgeon captain. Following his retirement, he practiced medicine in Brentwood, Essex, England for nearly twenty-five years.

He married Helen Beatrice Liardet in 1913 and they had two sons, Richard Anthony Swainson and Peter John Miller, also a physician. He died December 30, 1945, in Brentwood, Essex County, England. His wife, Helen, died twenty years later, in 1965.


Related links
Dr. Edwin Swainson Miller, Royal Navy, in dress uniform
Family Group Sheet for William Charles Miller and Lucy Swainson
Children of William Charles Miller and Lucy Swainson
The Miller Family
Richard Anthony Swainson Miller, son of Edwin and Helen Miller
Richard Miller, 1915-2003, son of Edwin and Helen Miller, with his wife Margot on their 25th wedding anniversary, 1978
Peter John Miller, 1917-2014, son of Edwin and Helen Miller



Photographs kindly provided by Donald A. Miller, a grandson of Edwin and Helen.


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