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    I DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH JOHNSON MILES.

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    I I The English publishing trade have lo...

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    ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 1 ' ^ W ^ Tt ^ l - ' -vov- ^ so ^ ^ ^ f 3 ! I 1190 The Publisher ^ Circular NW . il ^ j

    I Death Of Mr. Joseph Johnson Miles.

    I DEATH OF MR . JOSEPH JOHNSON MILES .

    I I The English Publishing Trade Have Lo...

    I I The English publishing trade have lost one of its most respected and honoured membersand many of the London ____ charities . _ have lost one of their ______ most __ staunch ___ __ j

    — — , — r — — __ . __ , ^^ ^ . friends away to , b his y the well death -earned ^ of Mr rest . Josep full h of Johnson yearsand Miles it , may who , without on November exaggeration 1 , passed be

    added , leaving behind him many , golden memories , , . Although , in the best sense of the wordsa man of business and to a great extent the architect of his own

    fortune , lie never , allowed the calls of the counting-house to engross his attention butin the midst of the ever-increasing activities of the well-known firm over which ,

    , he ^ b presided . _ ^_ ^ k , he _ . found __ . ^_ h time _ __ . not onl y for _¦_ much careful ____ ^ B thoug j _ ^ ht M _ aaid benevolence ^ p . towards - the _ k - ¦__ less -- fortunate -- - - 4 i - HV- workers of his own V 4 craft , but A l V for those private ^^ - h charities — - - — -- _ , _ . » . - __ ^^ ^ ^ -, «^ ¦ I ___ ^__ ___ _ _^^_— _ ___> . ^ ^_ . ^_ ^__ _ . __ ph ___

    around his homestead at Highgate , where his name will long be gratefully remembered word . of rich If the and ' monumentuni and in the sere pere x nnius witness ' was his borne desire , j the lie has it assembl in the good Oil jl

    poor , eloquent by large y at I his funeral to the kindliness of heart which marked his every action . I In glancing at the career of this successful * citizen of no mean city ' it may be II

    noted at the outset as one of the strange accidents of our commercial system that I the name of a man to whom the words we have written may justly be applied

    should never have been included in the style and title of the house of which he was the ^ ¦ i head ^ p ^ , and in which he h ^^ p ^^ began k life as - m far back >^ pip as ^ h * 182 (^ pfc 3 . M p ^ bk Althoug > h engaged from ^ p * ^_ ^ p ^ p .

    the first in the nnn . of Hamilton , Adams ^ , & *^^ Co ., which he entered under Mr . Hamilton on October 131826 becoming 1 a partner in 1832 / to the outer world his

    connection with the business , - was , never ^^ indicated f ^ . Born , on October 1 , 1811 , he — was the eldest son of Mr . John Mileswho was for many m years w senior partner » in »

    Simpkin , Marshall , & Co ., and with the , faniily of another leading ^ member J — of that " ^^ " ^ ^ firm he was at an early period united by the closest ties , having married in 1834

    the eldest daughter of Mr . Richard Marshall . In the same year in which he became a partner in his firmMr . Miles was elected to the livery of the Stationers'

    Company , and by a happy , coincidence , after becoming Renter Warden in 1842 , it was ^ in ^^^^^ " ^^ ^ 1882 ^^^ ~^^* ~^ a ^ r ^^^^ —th —^ ^^ v ^ n e ^^ p- jubilee h ——v ^^^ ^^»^^» - ^^ - ^^^ of ~^ p ^ - ^^ ^ his ^ h . ^^^ 1 . ^ connection - ^^ ^^^ ^^ bi- ^^ k ^^^ ^^ ^^^ p - ^^ - ^^^ ^^ - ^^ «^ h ^^ with Y - ^ - ^^ - ^^ ^^ ^^ the — ^^^ - ^^ - ^^ Company - ^^ - *^ ^^ v ^^ r ^^ —^^ ^ h ^^ r ^^ w whose v « ^^^ - ^^ ^^^ ^^^ - ^^^ ^ int V ^^^^ ^^ e ~^ V rests ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ T J ~ ^ he ^ fl ^ " ^^ V eve " ^^^^ ^ ^^ ^ r ^ ^ had ^ ^ b ^ - ^ B ^ ff ^ fe

    at heart—that he was placed in the Master ' s Chair . The members of the Company have owed much to his constant attendance at their meetings and to his unwearying devotion

    to the duties devolving upon him as a member of the court ; and when he reached its highest dignity as Master the event was hailed by the livery with genuine

    satisfaction . Of the trade charities Mr . Miles was a liberal supporter , and he acted as a trustee of the Booksellers' Provident Retreat . It was only natural that a man

    whose beyond business tbe limits qualities of ' the soon Row secured 3 should for him be a asked reputation to take in the a prominent commercia part l world in public organisations ; andwe find thatamong other posts which he filledwere those

    of director and trustee of the London , Life Association ; director of , the West I Middlesex Waterworks Com pany ; chairman , of Mudie ' s Library Company ; and 1

    director of the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company . In his own trade circles 1 he was frequently called upon to act as arbitrator , and his awards were generally

    esteemed to be fair and judicial . In the management of the great philanthropic institutions of central London he took a share , and was a governor of St .

    Bartholomew ' s Hospital , where for four years he filled the office of Almoner ; a governor of meetings Bridewell - ^ fp- of h and which Bethlehem he regularl h Hosp h y itals attended and - ^ pp - ^^ pF- of —™—^ pp the and ¦ King a trustee Edward b for f School the Ladies , the committee ' Charity

    School P ^^^™^^^^^^ ^ F ^ pr ^ p-- ^ PB £ PPBP * « 0 B . ygp ^^> ^ " ^ p » That ^^ pp —• -- — — I a man — — - ~ - ^^ " ^^ " who ^^^ pbh- BppK ¦ ^ thus ^ ^ H- ^^ p ^^ pp p ^^ p ^ filled ^^ a , *^^ ^^ pr ^ - ^^^ - pi ^ ^ many ; pp p " ^^ " offices p p ^ " — - ^ P" ^ " ^» ^^ outside ™» ^^ p ^^— ¦ ^ pP- ^ p ^^ pP > pBTPa his - ^ , - ppPI ^^ p > own p ^ f ^ h ^>^ p ^ P ^ IPHp ^^^ il house ppPP ^ V ^¦ tf' ^ t ^ ^^* ^ P "" " ^^^ became ^^ ^^ widel ^ P V ^ pW ^ p *^ ^^* a * pfpp * y V known ^ Pp- ^ p > ^ Pk ^ p * ^^ " * ^ p »^ , P | p need ^ " ^ p > ^ p * ' ^ r ¦ ¦¦ scarcely PW *^ p ^ ¦ ¦ ^ Phi ••** ^ N ^ ^ ^ be PPb ^ r ^ UpV Vhpr said ^ t *^^ * " ^ " *^ p > ; ^ and ^*" V ^ Afffc " ^>** 4 b p it ^ pfe ^ pT p is > I ¦ > » p « p « T ¦ p l « K easant ^^ f Mi p ^^ ¦» p » * Vt « ff ^ ^ f to V ^ pr - % ^~ be p ^ ^^^ able P ^ pPfpp P ^_ p * p ^ b— ^ p ^ to ^ h ** ^ pvp" ^ add V ^ p * ^ " ^* ^ p *^* , ^ 1 on ^^ ^ the ^ IM

    testimony of an impartial witness to his life-work , that among all his large circle ¦ of A ¦ - ' 4 M . acq T »¦ ¦ 1 ¦—1 ¦ u * * aintances » ¦¦¦ ¦ *¦* » ¦!!» ^ -- " ^¦ -- »^ he - ~ ^ - ^ was v w m . m 1 .- ' never » •¦» « , (¦ v ^ B ^ r j ^ known ^ m . m * u . V- ^ » W » - * to * - * ^ - ^ ^ mak * % - A >^> -W » - ¦* . e ^ p' m an .-l > a-v *» ¦ enemy ^^ r > « i ^^ j » . * . < k . »

    ^ m ducted - ^ Jfc . VftV At WVXVJ & . his by *^ W funeral the Vp < -ftV WM Rev . ^ r' ^ f « at . ( "Jr v High - ^ . S r % ^/ . gate jm Ram - ^ r ^ + fMJLJL Cemetery , j vicar V « . Vb « A of \^ m . , Bournemouth JL on ~ r- *~ S * - * the » - * AV ^ * a Jk Oth -v . s V » il > 4 « instant i 4 , and MIA JLVi , form JL 1 the ^ A . m . AA erl VJL service A y y vicar T A ^/ ft ^ was ^* - of ^^ — con St - .

    I Anne ' s , Highgate Rise , who came up to show his respect for Mr . Miles as an old I member of his congregationthe present vicar of StAnne ' sthe RevCTAckland ,

    I also taking part in the ceremony , . Mr . Miles leaves . a widow , and a numerous . . . family Hamilton

    I I I Adains to i , n mourn mourn , & his his Co . loss Iors , while , . and and his three thrift brothe of of rs his are sons roti at now now the head constitute constitutf of the * the t . lm nei nriii fi ghbouring r-m ot of Hamilton firm of ,,

    Simpkni , jVlarsiiaily & Co . mm ^ . i i b ¦ . . i n ' mjiiiiriwiiJirani ' iiiiiwi ' i 1 . « , .. u i " im i .. j ... i l . . j a -r = ^ SS ^^^ ^ HPt * I

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1884, page 1190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111884/page/2/