John Charles Miles
English academic
About John Charles Miles
Lived 1870 – 1963 (aged 92–93).
Sir John Charles Miles (29 August 1870 – 12 January 1963) was an English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1936 until 1947.
Education Born in Notting Hill, Miles was educated at Shrewsbury School; and Exeter College, Oxford.
Career Miles trained as a barrister, joining the chambers of T.E.Scrutton, later a judge of the King's Bench Division (1910–16) and then of the Court of Appeal. He then joined Merton and was successively Tutor (1899–1930); Domestic Bursar, 1904–1923); Senior Research Fellow (1930–1936; and finally Warden.
He was also Legal Assistant at the Ministry of Munitions from 1915 to 1918; and Solicitor to the Ministry of Labour from 1918 to 1919.
Miles was a keen member of the Worshipful Company of Weavers.
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