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Name |
Andrew Douglas Miller |
Gender |
Male |
Person ID |
I104684 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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- THE Douglas Miller family were the retailing aristocracy of Scotland.
The store on Edinburgh's Princes Street, which opened in 1838 and still bears the venerable Jenners name, was the oldest independent department store in the world until it was sold to House of Fraser in 2005.
The Douglas Millers inherited the store through their descent from James Kennedy, founder Charles Jenner's one-time apprentice and later business partner.
Andrew Douglas Miller, father of Jack, was deputy chairman with the firm when it was sold for ?46.1 million amid massive competition from John Lewis and Harvey Nicols.
Wife Helen, from Oxfordshire, is also in retailing, running upmarket shoe shops in Edinburgh and Inverness under her maiden name Helen Bateman.
The couple met while she was working at Tie Rack in London. After marriage and a move to the New Town in Edinburgh, she bought and designed ceramics for Wear on Earth.
This article: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=826942007
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