Horrie Miller

Horace Clive Miller (30 April 1893 – 27 September 1980) was a pioneering Australian aviator and co-founder of MacRobertson Miller Airlines.

Early life Miller and friends with DH 60 Gipsy moth VH-UJX. Miller is 2nd from left

Miller was born on 30 April 1893 in Ballarat, Victoria. He was the younger of two children born to Mary Ann (née Hurley) and John Pettigrew Miller.

Miller's Irish-born mother died of typhoid when he was an infant. He and his older sister were raised by their father, a clerk. He left school at a young age and moved to Melbourne, working various menial jobs before joining the Sunshine Harvester Works as an apprentice. During this time he became interested in aviation and built his first model aircraft.

Personal life In 1934, Miller married Jean Auburn Knox, with whom he had one daughter. They divorced in 1938 and in the same year he married burgeoning novelist Mary Durack, the daughter of Western Australian pastoralist Michael Durack. The couple had four daughters and two sons, including Robin Miller Dicks who followed her father into aviation. It formerly served as the main access route to Perth Airport's terminals 1 and 2.

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