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Anne (or Anna [S6]) was the only daughter [S3][S4][S6] and heir [S3] to Edward Riggs of Middle Temple, and sole heiress to her grandfather, the Right Honourable Edward Riggs. [S6] From the dates of her father's marriage (licence dated 22DEC1740) and his death (will proved 20JNE1743), Anne was born between 1741 and 1743.

She married CAPT.JOHN MILLER, of Ballycasey, county Clare ("Notes and Queries", in reporting this, refers to 'Bellicasey'), who later became Sir JOHN RIGGS-MILLER as described below. [S6] Faulkner's Dublin Journal covering the period Tues27AUG1765-Sat31AUG1765 reported it took place "A few Days since, at Bath" (in England). [S19].

Lady Riggs Miller was a poetess and authoress, and three of her works were published, as noted in the Cambridge Bibliography of Eng.Literature. [S15] Sir John "at extravagant cost" built Batheaston Villa at Bath, Somerset [S16] and Walpole's Letter on the Riggs-Millers refers to the poetic academy which they instituted there. Walpole considered the academy "made themselves ridiculous; which is a pity, as they are good-natured, well-meaning people". [S6] They had founded the academy on their return from travelling in France and Italy, after they "ran out their fortune, and all went to France to repair it". [S6]

Lady Riggs Miller died on 24JNE1781 "in her forty-first year". [S5] [S6] She was buried in Bath Abbey "where her husband erected a beautiful marble monument to her memory" [S5].

John Miller was the second son of John Miller of Drumline, Co.Clare and Anne, daughter of Thomas Browne, of New Grove, Co. Clare. [S16]. He was admitted at the Middle Temple 1757AUG1, attended Eton [S16]. [S16]. He served with Elliot's Light Horse Regiment in 1760 in Germany during the Seven Years War [S14] (the Light Dragoons) and as a Captain in the 113th Foot in 1761. [S16] He, and was admitted as a Fellow-Commoner at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge 1761MCH20 (see the note on his entry in Cambridge University Alumni). was admitted as a Fellow-Commoner at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge 1761MCH20 (see the note on his entry in Cambridge University Alumni).

He was created a Baronet in 1778, [S16] and changed his name in 1788 as reported in the Times: "Sir JOHN MILLAR (sic), Bart, has lately prefixed to his own, the surname of Riggs, in pursuance to the will of his late mother-in-law, whose family is extinct. We hear that a considerable estate in the county of Cork has devolved to Sir John by Mrs Riggs's death" [S54] Walpole commented that "'His wife brought him a large fortune, and he, full of good-natured officiousness, adopted her maiden name before his own." [S16]

Sir John was M.P. for Newport (near Launceston) in Cornwall from 1784-1790. [S14] He married a second time, to Jane Davenport, the widow of Sir Thomas Davenport M.P., [S16] (who had died in March 1786). [S14]

Sir John died in Bloomsbury Square, London on 28MAY1798 (see his biographical notice) [S14] and was buried at Bath Abbey [S13] [S16].

The Will of Sir John's second wife, Dame Jane Riggs Miller, was dated 30JLY1798 with codicil dated 12FEB1820, memorandum dated 15MAY1822 and codicil dated 21JLY1824, and was proved in London 10OCT1826 [S45].

The known children of Anne and John are said to be as follows (Walpole's Letter refers to Anne's mother being left with "the grandchildren" in France while Anne and John returned to Italy [S6]):

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Based on his stated age at his death (see below), Edward was born in 1767 or 1768.

Holworthy erroneously refers to Sir John Edward Riggs Miller, Bart as Sir John Riggs Bart.

In NOV1801 (date not quoted), Sir John Riggs Miller, Bt. married Miss Beauchamp (first name not quoted), elder daughter and co-heir of the late John Beauchamp, of Pingness, Cornwall. [S32]

He died on 2AUG1825. His Will dated 30JLY1818 (with Codicil dated 7OCT1820) states that "I desire that my body may be interred within the abbey Church of Bath and that there may be a plain monument with my name & age and my fathers name and age and expressing also that he was buried there as well as my maternal Grandmother Mrs Marg^t Riggs".[S44] The monument shows he died aged 57, though another source states he died "aged about 55 years".[S13]

The Will [S44] states "To my dear wife Ellen for whom I feel the most tender love and deep respect I leave no property in land or money because she is sufficiently provided for by our marriage settlement, and by the moiety of the Beauchamp Estate". He left in trust "freehold and real Estates in the County of Limerick and in the City of Limerick" as well as Cork, and the Records of Property owners of Co.Cork circa 1870 [S18] refers to "Sir J. Riggs Miller, Reps.of" (no address) owning 135 acres.

However, a case was filed in Chancery in 1832 against the executors of Sir John Edward Riggs Miller's Will to force them to establish the Will and carry its trusts into effect. The problem was that he had devised "all his freehold and real estates whatsoever, situate in the county of Limerick, and in the city of Limerick", when in fact he had no real estate in County Limerick, but he did have estates in County Clare. The executors won the case with the ruling that "use of extrinsic evidence is inconsistent with the rule that the testator's intention is to be gathered from the words of the will and that new words cannot be added".[S53]

When his Will was probated on 19APR1826, an Allegation was brought by the Executors in proving the will, "against Dame Ellen Riggs Miller Widow the lawful Relict of the said deceased, now of unsound mind and incapable of managing her estate acting by Ann Cranmer Blencowe (wife of the Reverend James Blencowe) of Pengreep [Cornwall] the Committee of her person, and the said Reverend James Blencowe Committee of her Estates appointed by the authority of the High Court of Chancery of Great Britain, and also against Jane Elizabeth Wheatley (wife of John Wheatley Esquire) the natural and lawful sister and only next of kin of the said deceased". [S13]

Those documents describe him as "formerly of Ballycasey, Co. Clare, Ireland, and of Swalcliffe House, near Banbury, Oxon.; late of Dallington, Northants". [S13] Dallington is now a suburb of Northampton (about 1 mile north-west of the city centre). Ballycasey Beg and Balleycasey More are two placenames within Drumline Civil Parish in County Clare.

The British census of 1851 lists his widow, Lady Riggs Miller as then living at Great Cleeves, in St Thomas Apostle parish in Exeter, Devon (with a resident companion, two nurses, a cook, a house-maid and a house-servant). Lady Riggs Miller is shown as having been born in Penzance, Cornwall, England, and as then being aged 73, which means that she was born about 1777/78. The entry shows her only as Lady Riggs Miller, with her title in place of her forename. [S7]