Philip John Miles

Philip John Miles (1773–1845) was an English landowner, slave owner, merchant, shipowner, banker and politician from Bristol.

[1] He left an estate of over £1.2 million (the equivalent of £1.75 billion in 2023 using relative income by GDP per capita[2]), making him the first recorded millionaire of Bristol.

[3][4] He was born on 1 March 1773, the second but only surviving son of William Miles (1728–1803), a Bristol West India merchant, and his wife Sarah Berrow.

He was one of my oldest and most valued friends - he was a sensible and pruent man; highly honest in all his mercantile and other dealings with the world - a kind husband, father and master to his servants, and in money matters I would say liberal.

"[11] The Bristol Mercury wrote "His manners and deportment were plain and unassuming, free alike from affectation and coarseness, they bore the English stamp of honest and hearty sincerity.