Norman S. Millar

Norman Stuart Millar (22 December 1887 near Newcastle, New South Wales, a son of Isabella Ann Millar, née McPherson, and James Cameron Millar (c. 1842 – 20 October 1904), who moved with his family to Clarence Town, and became well known as captain of the vessels Favourite and Edith on the Williams River, and where Millar attended the local schools. Coerwull Academy, in the Blue Mountains, and where A. D. McGill was once a teacher, has also been mentioned.

He was inducted to St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Brisbane on 25 September 1924.

On 22 June 1933 he was appointed chaplain, 4th class, with the Australian Army. (During the First World War he served for three years with the YMCA in Egypt, Palestine and France.)

He was 14 years as minister of St Andrew's Church, and for much of that time an active member of the Council of Churches in Queensland, seven as president. A marble plaque on the church building, corner Creek and Ann streets, Brisbane, is a tribute to his ministry.

A memoir, published by his wife, sold out immediately.

Family He married Mary Wallace BA (died 18 May 1979), of Haberfield, New South Wales on 1 May 1920. Mary was a fellow-student at the University, and for a time History mistress at North Sydney Girls' High School; they had several children.