E. K. Miller

Miller, who had previously held a similar position near Rotherham, Yorkshire, and his wife Mary Miller, née Kirtland, arrived in South Australia aboard Hindoo in April 1848 to take the position of headmaster,[1] He was one of the two first clergymen to be ordained in the Diocese of Adelaide.

)[2] Miller was required to combine headmasterly duties with those of assistant minister of Christ Church, North Adelaide, but appears to have had a breakdown and after three years, on medical advice ("either the madhouse or the cemetery"),[3] he resigned from the school.

At considerable risk to himself he treated the throats of those affected with a caustic pencil, at that time the only effective remedy.

[8] Miller was a regular contributor to the correspondence columns of The South Australian Register over a long period.

[3] Recurrent themes were his love of the Book of Common Prayer and his antipathy to the promotion of high church liturgy by a powerful cabal of Anglicans.