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William Miller
1864–1945
A British medievalist and journalist, this writer brought the history of Frankish Greece, Byzantium, and the Near East to a wide English-language audience. His books mix careful scholarship with the eye of a traveler who knew the region firsthand.
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Essays on the Latin Orient
by William Miller
About the author
Born in Wigton, England, on December 8, 1864, he was educated at Rugby School and Hertford College, Oxford, where he earned a double first. Although he was called to the bar in 1889, he did not practice law, instead turning to writing and historical research.
His early books included The Balkans and Travels and Politics in the Near East, and he became especially known for studies such as The Latins in the Levant, Greek Life in Town and Country, and Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire. His work focused on medieval and modern Greek history, the Byzantine world, and the eastern Mediterranean, and he was later elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
After leaving England with his wife, Ada Mary Wright, in 1903, he lived abroad for much of the rest of his life, including years in Italy and Greece. He died in Durban, South Africa, on October 23, 1945. I could confirm useful biographical details and a list of major works, but I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.