 Both companies exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851 George Alexander Miller purchased the adjoining 178 Piccadilly in 1857.Horatio William Miller, who was associated with the business died in 1900 and the company moved from 179 Piccidilly in 1907–8.Their father, Charles Taverner Miller (1773–1830), a wax chandler from Middlesex was awarded patent 5896 in February 1830 for "certain improves in the making and manufacturing of candles".