Stearne Ball Miller (1813 – 2 May 1897) was an Irish Conservative Party barrister, judge and politician. He was born in

Armagh Armagh ( ; ga, Ard Mhacha, , "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Pri ...

, son of the Reverend George Miller, the

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priest and noted

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, and Elizabeth Ball, daughter of Robert Ball of

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ga, Contae Chill Mhantáin ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is bordered by t ...

. Walford, Edward ''The County Families of the United Kingdom'' 2nd Edition London Robert Hardwicke and Co 1864 p.695 He was

called to the Bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

in 1835, Queen's Counsel in 1852.He married Sarah Rutherford, daughter of M.B. Rutherford of

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

. He lived at Rutland Square in Dublin. Miller was first elected MP for

Armagh City Armagh City was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency in Ireland. Boundaries This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Armagh in County Armagh. It was the successor constituency to the Armagh City constituency of the Parliament of I ...

in 1857, but was defeated at the next election in 1859. He regained the seat at the 1865 election, but resigned after being appointed the judge in

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in 1867.He held office as the Irish Bankruptcy judge until his death in 1897.Delaney, V.T.H '' Christopher Palles'' Allen Figgis and Co Dublin 1960

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* 1813 births 1897 deaths Irish Conservative Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Armagh constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1865–1868 19th-century Irish judges Irish Queen's Counsel 19th-century King's Counsel {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub