Agnes Eleanora Miller

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(1898–1994) was a Scottish zoologist and Fellow of the

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Life

She was born in

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in central Scotland on 7 September 1898, the eldest daughter of William Douglas Miller and his wife Agnes Cameron Adam, a singer and pianist who studied under Sir

Hubert Parry Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918), was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Born in Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is ...

. In 1906, the family moved to 57 Kirklee Road in

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. She was educated at Westbourne School for Girls, Glasgow and then attended

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for a year. She then attended the

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, originally studying medicine but changing to Zoology under the influence of

John Graham Kerr Sir John Graham Kerr (18 September 1869 – 21 April 1957), known to his friends as Graham Kerr, was a British embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP). He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes. He was invol ...

, graduating with a Master's degree in 1920. She became Kerr's Demonstrator in 1924, and began lecturing in Zoology in 1929. In 1954 she was elected a Fellow of the

. Her proposers were Sir

Maurice Yonge Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, CBE, FRS FRSE (9 December 1899 – 17 March 1986) was an English marine zoologist. Life Charles Maurice Yonge was born in Silcoates School near Wakefield in Yorkshire in 1899 the son of John Arthur Yonge (1865–1 ...

, Sir

, Harry Slack and Sheina Marshall. She waited until the end of career before submitting her PhD thesis, and was awarded her doctorate by the

in 1962. In 1963, she retired and left the family home to live with her widowed sister, Betty Gordon, in

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. She died in a nursing home on 23 March 1994 at the age of 95.

Publications

*''Studies in Dipnoan Structure''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Nora 1898 births 1994 deaths People educated at Westbourne School for Girls Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20th-century British women scientists 20th-century Scottish zoologists