Philip Napier Miles
Philip Napier Miles
JP DLitt "h.c."
(Bristol) (21 January 1865 – 19 July 1935) was a prominent and wealthy citizen of Bristol, UK, who left his mark on the city, especially on what are now its western suburbs, through his musical and organisational abilities and through good works of various kinds.
He was the only son of Philip William Skynner Miles (1816–1881), a major promoter and developer of the docks at Avonmouth, who was the eldest son of Philip John Miles (1773–1845) by his second marriage to Clarissa Peach (1790–1868), and Pamela Adelaide Napier, daughter of the soldier (distinguished in the Peninsular War) and military historian General
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier.
He was therefore half-nephew of Sir William Miles,
1st Baronet, half-cousin of Sir Philip John William Miles, 2nd Baronet, both Conservative politicians, and cousin of the fashionable portrait painter Frank Miles, gentleman cricketer Robert Miles and Mount Everest explorer, General
The Hon Charles Granville Bruce.
He was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford, and was selected as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1916–17.
Miles baronets
The Miles Baronetcy, of Leigh Court in the County of Somerset, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
It was created on 19 April 1859 for the banker and Conservative politician William Miles.
His son, the second Baronet, was also a banker and Conservative politician.
The family's bank, founded in 1750, eventually became part of NatWest.
Philip John Miles, father of the first Baronet, was Mayor of Bristol and sat as Member of Parliament for Westbury, Corfe Castle and Bristol.
The first Baronet was an uncle of Philip Napier Miles, Frank Miles and Christopher Oswald Miles.
Baglan Mailybayev
Baglan Mailybayev( in Kazakh Бағлан Асаубайұлы Майлыбаев) was born on 20 May 1975 in Zhambyl region, Kazakhstan.
His nationality is Kazakh.
He is a politician of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Law( 2002)( under the supervision of Professor Zimanov S.Z.- scientific advisor and academician of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan) and Ph.D. in Political Science( 1998).
Eleni Gabre-Madhin
Eleni Zaude Gabre- Madhin, an Ethiopian economist with Swiss nationality, is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange( ECX).
She has had many years of experience working on agricultural markets – particularly in Sub- Saharan Africa – and has held senior positions in the World Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute( Washington), and United Nations( Geneva).
Alan Montgomery
Alan Everard Montgomery CMG( born 11 March 1938) is a retired British diplomat.
He was Ambassador to the Philippines from 1992 to 1995, and High Commissioner to Tanzania from 1995 to 1998.
He was an Associate Member of the General Medical Council from 2009 to 2012.
He is the son of Philip Napier Montgomery and Honor Violet Coleman(" née" Price).
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Birkbeck College, London( B.A. Hons., Ph.D.).
Robert Charles Goff
Robert Charles Goff( 1837–1922) was a printmaker and painter who specialised in topographical scenes.
As an etcher he was strongly influenced by the work of James McNeill Whistler.
Born in Ireland, he obtained a commission in the 50th Queen's Own Regiment just before his eighteenth birthday.
He fought in the Crimean War and became adjutant of his regiment before going to Ceylon and then transferring to the 15th Foot then the Coldstream Guards.
Having achieved the rank of colonel, he retired from the Coldstream Guards in 1878 to concentrate on his art work, having learned etching from a fellow officer.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter- Etchers and Engravers in 1887.
In 1877 he married Beatrice Teresa Testaferrata- Abela, daughter of Baron Testaferrata- Abela of Malta and had a son, Francis who died in 1891.
His wife also died and in 1899 he remarried The Hon Clarissa Catherine de Hochepied- Larpent, daughter of the eighth Baron de Hochepied- Larpent, and thus became brother- in- law of his friends Philip Napier Miles and George Percy Jacomb- Hood.
Goff lived in London and Brighton but travelled extensively.
He moved in the 1890s to a villa overlooking Florence and he and his second wife wrote about the area.
He then moved during the First World War to Villa Valerie, Bellaria, La Tour- de- Peilz, Switzerland where he died in 1922.
Brighton and Hove Museum and Art Gallery hold a large collection of Goff's work.
In 2011 art historian Alexandra Loske researched this collection in preparation for an exhibition of Goff's work at the museum's Prints and Drawings Gallery: Robert Goff: An Etcher in the Wake of Whistler( 29 November 2011 to 29 April 2012).
The exhibition comprised approx.
50 works by Goff, mostly etchings and some other works on paper.
On display were local views of Brighton, Hove and Sussex, as well as pictures from his travels in other parts of Britain, Italy, Egypt and Japan.
Sir Philip Miles, 2nd Baronet
Sir Philip John William Miles, 2nd Baronet( 2 September 1825 – 5 June 1888) was an English politician.
Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he then served in the 17th Lancers.
He was a sheriff of Bristol in 1853 and partner in the family's bank, Miles& Co from 1852 to 1854.
He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament( MP) for East Somerset from 1878 to 1885 and was a member of the Carlton Club and the Army and Navy Club.
In 1878, he inherited the baronetcy of Leigh Court, Somerset, from his father William, who had previously been Conservative MP for East Somerset along with estates in Somerset and had his own estate in County Kerry, Ireland.
He was cousin of Philip Napier Miles, Frank Miles and Katharine Tennant.
He supported an amendment to the Representation of the People Act 1884 and the Franchise Bill debated earlier that year, that would have allowed votes for women who were householders on equal terms with men.
The vote was defeated and women finally received the vote in the UK in 1918.
In 1848, he married Frances Roche( 1827–1908), daughter of Sir David Roche, Bt, Roche baronets MP for Limerick, a renowned society beauty nicknamed the" Venus of Miles" in reference to the classical sculpture the Venus de Milo.
She attracted a number of admirers including Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland who scandalised society by leaving his 120 foot yacht, Lufra, to her in his will.
They had the following children:
He died of acute laryngitis at his London house, 75 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington, SW and was succeeded by his son, Cecil, in 1888.
His widow subsequently remarried an American from St Louis, Missouri, Dr John Nicholls, in 1904 and they lived at Maidenhead, Berkshire and she died in 1908.
Amyntas III of Macedon
Amyntas III( died 370 BC) was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.
He was the son of Arrhidaeus and grandson of Amyntas, one of the sons of Alexander I.
His most famous son is Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
He is historically considered the founder of the unified Macedonian state.
Philip William Skinner Miles
Philip William Skinner Miles (1816 – 1 October 1881), sometimes spelled Skynner Miles, was a British Conservative politician.
He was the son of Member of Parliament (MP)
Philip John Miles and Clarissa née Peach.
Miles was elected a Conservative MP for Bristol at the 1837 general election and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election.
Miles was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1863.
He was Chairman of the Port and Pier Railway Company.
Ali Rahuma
Ali Khalifa Rahuma( born May 16, 1982) is a Libyan football midfielder who's nationality is Libyan.
He currently plays for Al- Ittihad, and is a member of the Libya national football team.

Question: What nationality is Philip Napier Miles's father?
Answer: British