Thomas Milles

Canting arms of Milles of Cockfield, Suffolk: Argent, a chevron between three millrinds sable. As seen in portrait by George Vertue of Rev. Isaac Miles (1638-1720), Vicar of Highclere. Also on funeral hatchment of Jeremiah Milles III (d.1797) in Sawbridgeworth Church Thomas Milles (1671–1740) was the Church of Ireland bishop of Waterford and Lismore.

Life The eldest son of Isaac Milles the elder, he was born at Barley, Hertfordshire, on 19 June 1671. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, on 12 March 1689, was exhibitioner of the college in 1691–2, and graduated B.A. in 1692, M.A. in 1695, and B.D. in 1704.

Having been ordained by Bishop John Hough, he became chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1694, and was from 1695 to 1707 vice-principal of St Edmund Hall. He was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in 1705–1707. In April 1707 he went to Ireland as chaplain to the new lord-lieutenant, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, and on 11 March 1708 was appointed bishop of Waterford and Lismore. He was consecrated in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on 18 April.