Philip John Miles (1773–1845) was an English landowner, slave owner, merchant, shipowner, banker and politician from Bristol. Through his banking interests he found himself on the register of owners of slaves on plantations in Jamaica though only as mortgagee in possession in cases when his bank had taken possession of plantations through the default of their owners on mortgage payments.[1] He left an estate of over £1.2 million (the equivalent of £1.75 billion in 2023 using relative income by GDP per capita[2]), making him the first recorded millionaire of Bristol.[3][4]
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