Miles Stringer
(1828-1894)

[This sitting does not appear in the Silvy daybooks.]

Miles Stringer appears on the 1861 census living at Effingham in Surrey. Born at Monxton in Hampshire in or about 1828, he described himself as ‘Army, Retired (half-pay).’ Also present on the night of the census were his wife Louisa, sons Miles (7) and Frederick (6), eight servants including a butler and a footman, and a seventeen-year-old niece, Georgiana Rawlinson.

Colonel Miles Stringer 'formerly of the Inniskilling Dragoons, who commanded for many years the 3rd Royal Surrey Militia' died, aged 66, on 8 May 1894 at 28 Park Road, West Dulwich (Army and Navy Gazette, 12 May 1894). 

[From an album compiled by Charles Balfour, a British wine merchant importing sherry and port from Portugal. Born in Edinburgh on 22 August 1822, his father was James Balfour. In May 1852 he married Mary Ermelinda, daughter of Robert Woodhouse of Oporto in Portugal. The couple were married at the consulate then afterwards at the British chapel in Oporto. Charles Balfour died on 12 January 1876.]