David Miller
David Miller (1854-1917)
1918 Obituary [1]
DAVID MILLER was born on 14th April 1854, and was educated at Larbert, Stirlingshire.
At the age of seventeen he began an apprenticeship with Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., of Glasgow, and on its completion five years later he remained in their employ as journeyman until October 1877 when, at the firm's request, he embarked as 3rd engineer on the S.S. "Penguin," trading to the East, subsequently becoming 2nd engineer.
In 1882 be joined the Spanish Royal Mail Co. as 2nd engineer and was promoted to 1st engineer in 1884.
Three years later he was appointed assistant superintendent engineer at Cadiz, having charge of the workshops and dockyard, and he also acted as surveyor to the Italian Lloyd's and to the German Lloyd's Register.
In October 1900 he was transferred to Liverpool as general superintendent for the company, and was holding this position at the time of his death on 28th April 1917, at the age of sixty-three.
He was elected a Member of this Institution in 1904.