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William Miles (Queensland politician)
William Miles (5 May 1817 – 22 August 1887)〔
〕 was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
==Personal life==
Miles was born on 5 May 1817 at Hails Quarry, near Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of William Miles and Alison (née Wilson).〔Queensland Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages〕 He married Mary Taylor in Colinton in 1838 and together they emigrated to New South Wales on the ship ''Duncan'' as assisted migrants and arrived at Sydney on 30 June1838.〔 He was employed on Mr. W. H. Chapman's station on the Macleay River, until 1852, when he commenced squatting on his own account on the Dawson River, in the then colony of Queensland.
William Miles died on 22 August 1887 at his home in Toowoomba, when an abscess in his ear lead to an inflammation of his brain. He had expressed a wish to be buried in the Toowong Cemetery in Brisbane and his body in a cedar coffin was conveyed by a special black-wreathed train from Toowoomba to Brisbane, where a largely-attended Presbyterian funeral was conducted at the cemetery. He was survived by his wife and two daughters, Jessie (Mrs Herbert Hunter) and Alice (Mrs John Nicholls).
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