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Dec 10, 2020 · 10 December 2020. A statue of Hugh Miller, who discovered thousands of fossils and wrote books on geology. A renowned 19th Century Scottish fossil hunter and geologist has been found to have held ...
Dec 10, 2020 · 10 December 2020. BBC. A statue of Hugh Miller, who discovered thousands of fossils and wrote books on geology. A renowned 19th Century Scottish fossil hunter and geologist has been found to have ...
Dec 10, 2020 · Added on 10 December 2020. "Degraded races, hopelessly lost". We here examine Hugh Miller's views on race, presenting us with difficult truths about the man we admire. This article first appeared in Hugh's News No 46, November 2020, and has been the subject of BBC media coverage. By Martin Gostwick (in his personal capacity)
Hugh Miller stood just short of 6ft tall, a man of most striking appearance with a great mass of flaming red hair and "sapphire" blue eyes (according to his wife, Lydia). He was proud of immense physical strength, an epic walker, cragsman, and sea diver, but suffered terribly all his life from "the stonemason's malady" - silicosis - and this likely played a key part in his untimely death.
Miller was born in Cromarty, the first of three children of Harriet Wright (bap. 1780, d. 1863) and Hugh Miller (bap. 1754, d. 1807), a shipmaster in the coasting trade. Both parents were from trading and artisan families in Cromarty. [3] His father died in a shipwreck in 1807, and he was brought up by his mother and uncles. [4]
Hugh Miller 1802 – 1856. Hugh Miller was a self-taught stonemason and writer who became intensely fascinated by the fossils such as ammonites and fish he found near his home in Cromarty on the Black Isle. He moved to Edinburgh to become editor of The Witness newspaper and, being a staunch Christian, helped to found the Free Church of Scotland.
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Oct 11, 2024 · Hugh Miller turns 222! The team at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage & Museum would love you to join them in celebrating the Highlands’ most famous fossil hunter’s 222nd birthday, with events taking place from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 October. Stonemason, geologist, writer and social justice campaigner, Hugh Miller was born in a thatched ...
