Peter John Miller was born in Malta in 1917, during the First World War, to Edwin Swainson Miller and Helen Beatrice Liardet. Like his father, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, Peter became a General Practitioner after training at St. Bart’s College in London. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy as the naval surgeon on the HMS Aphis, a gunboat.

In 1948, after the war, Peter moved to Rugby, Warwickshire, England, and set up practice, serving the community until he retired in 1982, a well-loved and respected community member.

Peter was married to Doreen Paxton, better known as “Pru,” in 1945 in Plymouth, Devon, England. Besides serving as a borough councillor, Pru served as mayor of Rugby in 1986-87.

Pru died in 2006, age 85, and Peter died in 2014, age 96.