Henry Miller (Australian politician)

Shortly afterwards, Miller senior was appointed commandant at Moreton Bay, where he spent eighteen months, and was then transferred to Van Diemen's Land, where he died at Hobart in 1866.

After the arrival of the family in what was later Tasmania, Miller junior obtained an appointment as an accountant in the audit office at Hobart, and at the age of twenty-four married Eliza, second daughter of the late Captain Mattinson of the Merchant Service.

[1] After visiting the Port Phillip District, later the colony of Victoria, Miller resigned from his position in Tasmania, and settled in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond.

In July 1866, he joined the first McCulloch Ministry as Commissioner of Railways, but was forced to resign after he was not re-elected in January 1867, and retired thenceforward from public life.

Their children included: The Miller brothers were famous horsemen, known for hunting and steeplechasing,[7] closely associated with their property, Mill Park, and the horse Redleap.