Edward Miller (musician)

Edward Miller (1731 or 1735 – 1807) was an English musician, composer and historian of Doncaster. He is most noted as the writer of the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway. Life Miller was the son of a pavior, but left home to study music, from Charles Burney, who was then at King’s Lynn. For a time he was a flautist in Handel’s orchestra. In 1787, he published simultaneously in London and Dublin his ‘Treatise of Thorough Bass and Composition.’ In 1791, he published ‘Thoughts on the present performance of Psalmody in the Established Church of England addressed to the Clergy’ (London), and in 1792 ‘A Letter to the Country Spectator in reply to the author of his 9th Number … by a Professor of Music’ (London and Doncaster), which is a defence of ‘Fiddlers.’ In 1801 he published The Psalms of Watts and Wesley for three Voices for the use of Methodists (London), and in 1804 The History and Antiquities of Doncaster and its vicinity with anecdotes of Eminent Men, with a map, &c. (Doncaster). He was also the author of The Tears of Yorkshire on the death of the Most Noble the Marquis of Rockingham (London, 1782), and Fetis states that he began a translation of J. J. Rousseau’s Dictionnaire d