Arthur Goodall MILLER (1850-1938)

Arthur Goodall Miller was the father-in-law of Thomas Butler, who was the nephew of Eugénie Sladden and the cousin of Jack, May, Kathleen, Ethel, Arthur, George, Cyril and Juliet Sladden.

Arthur Miller was born in 1850 at 3 Holford Square, Pentonville, the son of Uriah and Mary Abigail Miller; he was baptized at St Mark, Clerkenwell, on 25th August 1850.

In 1875, Arthur married Fanny Williamson Harker.  They had two children:  Arthur Douglas (1877) and Phyllis Beata (1883-1972).  At the time of the 1891 census, they were living at 30 Eaton Rise, Ealing, but, by 1895 when Fanny died, they were living at Boxlands, Dorking.

Arthur married again in 1896 to Alice Elizabeth Andrews, the widow of Arthur Andrews of China and Calcutta.  He became step-father to her four children and they lived in Alice’s home, Redstone, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne.  Alice died on 12th July 1914.  Just over nine months later, Arthur married for a third time, to Alice Cecilia Pantin, the widow of Henry Pantin of Staplegrove, Beckenham; the wedding took place on 28th April 1915 at Christ Church, Esher.  Arthur was then living at Kewhurst Manor, Little Common, Bexhill.

Arthur died at Brookfields Brook, Godalming, Surrey, on 19th February 1938, his third wife having died a year earlier.  His son-in-law, Thomas Lionel Butler, was one of the executors of his will.