Walter Miller

Walter Richard Samuel Miller (22 March 1872 - 17 August 1952) was a British missionary active in Nigeria during the first half of the 20th century. He was the main author of the first complete translation of the Bible into Hausa.

Biography

Walter Richard Samuel Miller was born in 1872 in Devonshire, United Kingdom.

He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital medical school and graduated MRCS and LRCP in 1896. He finally settled in Zaria in 1902 with another missionary, George Bargery. His sister Ethel Miller joined him some time later. He opened a dispensary and a school.

In 1929, the new emir asked the Christian mission to leave Zaria for Wusasa. Miller gradually translated the Bible into Hausa, which was published in full in that language for the first time in 1932. He left the CMS afterward and returned to England in 1935; however, he returned to Nigeria four years later. He was buried at St Piran's Cemetery in Jos.

Miller married in 1935; his wife died in 1939. W. R. S. Miller, Reflections of a Pioneer, London, CMS, 1936 W. R. S. Miller, For Africans only, 1950