William Miller

Born in 1864, William Miller was a British historian and journalist whose writing focused on Greece, the Balkans, and the medieval eastern Mediterranean. He studied at Oxford, trained for the Bar, and then chose a life shaped more by travel, reporting, and historical research than by legal practice.

Miller wrote extensively on southeastern Europe and the Greek world. His books include The Balkans: Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia, and Montenegro, Essays on the Latin Orient, The Gattilusj of Lesbos, Greek Life in Town & Country, Greece, and A History of the Greek People (1821–1921). His work is especially remembered for combining close attention to the medieval "Latin Orient" with a clear interest in the modern history and culture of Greece.

He spent significant periods living in Rome and later Athens, and he continued writing actively even after describing himself as retired. During the German invasion of Greece in 1941, he and his wife fled to Durban, South Africa, where he died in 1945 at the age of 80. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found during this search.