William Christopher Miller

William Christopher Miller FRSE (19 May 1898 – 17 December 1976) was a 20th century British veterinary surgeon and author. He was President of the National Veterinary Association in 1940.

Life Miller was born in the British Central Africa Protectorate in 1898 and was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester in England. He then trained as a veterinary surgeon at the Royal Dick Vet School in Edinburgh.

Around 1920 he began lecturing in Animal Hygiene at the East of Scotland College of Agriculture. In 1927 he moved to the University of Edinburgh to lecture in animal genetics.

In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, James Ritchie, Orlando Charnock Bradley and James Hartley Ashworth.

Publications Some Parasites of British Sheep (1925) Practical Animal Husbandry (1933 with multiple later editions) Encyclopedia of Animal Care (1972)