Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet (13 May 1797 – 17 June 1878), was an English politician, agriculturalist and landowner. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and was created a baronet on 19 April 1859, of Leigh Court, Somerset. Family Miles was the son of Philip John Miles (1773–1845) by his first marriage to Maria Whetham (1776–1811). His father was a landowner, shipowner, banker and reportedly the first millionaire in Bristol. Miles married Catherine (1798–1869), daughter of John Gordon, on 12 September 1823, with whom he had the following children:- Sir Philip John William Miles, 2nd Baronet Maria Catherine Miles (1826–1909), who married Robert Charles Tudway, MP for Wells (UK Parliament constituency), and had issue. Agatha Miles (1827–1912), who married General Edward Arthur Somerset, CB; they had eight daughters and one son. Emma Clara Miles (1830–1911), who married Reverend Hon James Walter Lascelles, son of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, and had nine children. Captain William Henry Miles, JP (1830–1888), who married Mary Frances Kynaston Charlton, daughter of Rev John Kynaston Charleton; they had a son, Eustace Miles, and two daughters. Captain Charles John William Miles (1832–1874), who served in the 5th Regiment of Foot and married Elizabeth Maria Lloyd, daughter of Rev Henry Lloyd, but had no children. Catherine Miles (1834–1911), who married General Sir Robert Onesiphorus Bright, GCB, and had three sons and five daughters. Frances Harriett Miles (1835–1923), who married Sir William Augustus Ferguson Davie, 3rd Baronet, Senior Clerk to the House of Commons and grandson of General Sir Henry Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet; they had five children. Florence Louisa Miles (1840–1862), who married The Reverend Francis Edmund Cecil Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford, Chaplain to Queen Victoria, and had two children. She died after giving birth to their second child, Edmund Byng, 6th Earl of Strafford. Arthur John William Whetham Miles (1841–1853). Harriott Ellin Miles (1841–1864), who married Robert Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth, MP for South Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency) and Mid Norfolk, JP; she died after giving birth to their only child, a daughter. Sir Henry Robert William Miles, 4th Baronet (1843–1915), who succeeded his nephew Sir Cecil Miles to the Baronetcy. Political career He was Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Chippenham from 1818 to 1820, for New Romney from 1830 to 1832, and sat for East Somerset from 1834 to 1865 as a Conservative. During his time as MP