MILLES, Samuel (c.1669-1727), of Herne and Canterbury, Kent.

Samuel Milles, of an old Kent family, who held a legal post under the dean and chapter of Canterbury, was returned for the city as a Tory in 1722, together with his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Hales, a Whig. He was one of the few Tories who voted with the Government on a personal attack made by Pulteney and his friends on Walpole in 1727.Knatchbull Diary, 7 Mar. 1727. Defeated at the general election that year, he died 10 Dec. 1727.