Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller - A Famous Scottish Geologist
Hugh Miller (1802-56). Born in Cromarty, near Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, for the first 16 years of his working life this self-taught palaeontologist was a stone mason. During the long winter nights he devoted himself to voracious reading and writing and the study of natural history. A poet and a contributor to a wide range of journals, Miller combated Chamber's theory of evolution and promoted a pre-Darwinian scheme of natural history. His geological volume The Old Red Sandstone (1841) became a classic of its kind. Worn out by illness and work, he shot himself on Christmas Eve 1856 after noting down 'a fearful dream'.
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