MILLARD 



MILLER 



Evelyn Millard, 

 British actress 



Millard, EVELYN (b. 1873). 

 British actress. Born in Kensing- 

 ton, Sept. 18, 1873, the daughter 

 of John Mil- 

 lard, who 

 taught elocu- 

 tion at the 

 Royal Aca- 

 demy and 

 the Royal 

 College of 

 Music, she 

 made her first 

 appearance at 

 The Hay- 

 market in 

 1891. After studying with Sarah 

 Thorne she played important roles 

 under the management of George 

 Alexander, Beerbohm Tree, and 

 Lewis Waller, and was in manage- 

 ment on her own account in 1908- 

 10 at the Garrick, Criterion, and 

 New theatres. 

 Millau. Town of France, in the 



dept. of Aveyron. 



It lies on the \. 

 right bank of the ! 

 Tarn at the S.W 

 end of the Ceven- ! 

 nes, 74 m. by rly. 

 N.ofBeziers. The 

 church o f Notre 

 Dame is in a mix- 

 ture of Romanes- 

 que and Renais- 

 sance, and there is 

 a notable square 

 with arcades 

 dating from the 

 12-15th centuries. 

 During the 16th 

 and 17th centuries 



Millbank. Plan ol the old London 

 penitentiary, a. chapel and gov- 

 ernor's house. b. c. Bastions. 

 d. Entrance, e. External walls 



by Sir Robert Smirke on the lines 

 described in Jeremy Bentham's 

 Panopticon, or the Inspection 

 House, 1778. Built in 1812-22, at 

 a cost of more than 500,000, on 

 ground bought in 1799 from the 



Miliau, France. General view o: ne town looting toward 

 Causse Noir, a height of the Cevenues -. 



it was a Calvinist centre ; its fortifi- 

 cations were destroyed under 

 Richelieu in 1620. The chief in- 

 dustry is the manufacture of kid 

 gloves. Pop. 18,000. 



Millbank. District of S.W. 

 London, in the city of Westminster. 

 While the name applies strictly tb 

 the thoroughfare on the left bank 

 of the Thames between Great Col- 

 lege Street and Grosvenor Road, 

 it is given also to much of the area 

 between Great College Street a.nd 

 Vauxhall Bridge Road. On the 

 river bank originally built to act 

 as one side of the mill-race serving 

 the mill of the abbot of Westmin- 

 ster, are the Victoria Tower Gar- 

 dens. The chief buildings include 

 theTate Gallery, Royal Army Medi- 

 cal College (q.v. ), Queen Alexan- 

 dra's Military Hospital, Military 

 Nurses' Home, Millbank Barracks, 

 and a block of model dwellings. 



What was first known as MilL 

 bank Penitentiary was the out- 

 come of an Act of 1778, providing 

 for penitentiary houses in ac- 

 cordance with certain ideas set 

 afoot by John Howard and other 

 prison reformers. It was modelled 



marquess of Salisbury, it resembled 

 a wheel, the axle of which com- 

 prised the chapel and governor's 

 house. From this radiated six 

 bastions, each with five sides and 

 terminating externally in towers. 



The external walls, forming an 

 irregular octagon enclosed up- 

 wards of 16 acres, and were once 

 surrounded by a moat. The build- 

 ings were of three storeys, were con- 

 nected by covered ways with the 

 chapel, and the dark passages, 

 staircases and tortuous windings 

 of the interior proved bewildering 

 even to old warders. Every con- 

 vict sentenced to transportation 

 Was first sent here and was soli- 

 tarily confined. The system repre- 

 sented by the penitentiary was 

 condemned in 1843, and the place, 

 made a military prison in- 1870, 

 was closed Nov. 6, 1890, and pulled 

 down in 1903. See Memorials of 

 Millbank, A. G. F. Griffiths, 1875. 



Millboard. Material made 

 from wastepaper, rags, rope, and 

 similar scrap. They are pulped 

 and hydraulically pressed into 

 sheets varying from % to inch 

 thick and up to 12 ft. by 6 ft. in 



size. Millboard is used for railway 

 carriage panelling and partitions, 

 and for book binding, etc. 



Millbrook. Parish of Hampshire, 

 England It stands on the Test, 

 partly within the bor. of South- 

 ampton, with a station on the 

 L & S.W. Rly See Southampton. 

 Millennium (Lat. mille, a thou- 

 sand ; cmnus. a year). Period of 

 1,000 years. The term is used 

 specifically of the ancient idea of a 

 kingdom of Christ upon earth. 

 Whereas many of the later Jews, 

 basing the idea on a literal inter- 

 pretation of O.T. prophecies, 

 looked forward to the earthly mil- 

 lennium as the final goal, the 

 Christian idea, based upon Rev. 

 rx, 1-7, was of a prelude to the 

 blessedness of heaven. 



Much discussion has taken place 

 as to the meaning of the words of 

 S. John, who foresaw Satan being 

 bound and the martyrs dwelling 

 with Christ for 1000 years, at the 

 end of which period Satan, loosed 

 again, was to make his last assault 

 upon the saints before being cast 

 into the lake of fire. The doctrine 

 of the millennium, also known as 

 Chiliasm (Gr. chilioi, a thousand), 

 was condemned because of the 

 excesses to which it gave rise ; but 

 it still exists in various forms and 

 it formed part of the creed of 

 several Evangelical divines. See 

 Adventists ; Anabaptists ; Anti- 

 christ ; Fifth Monarchy Men. 



Millepora. Name given to a 

 family of hydrocoralines which 

 occur in the warmer seas. They 

 form large chalky masses, covered 

 with tiny pores through which 

 the polyps protrude. These small 

 pores are arranged in a circle 

 around a larger central one, from 

 which protrudes a polyp provided 

 with a mouth and specialised to 

 act as the feeding member of the 

 group. The smaller pores are occu- 

 pied by polyps of longer body, 

 whose function is to catch the prey 

 and pass it to the mouth of the 

 feeding polyp. Below the surface 

 of the " coral " are numerous 

 canals, which connect the different 

 polyps into one compound or- 

 ganism. See Coral. 



Miller, HUGH (1802-56). Scot- 

 tish geologist and writer. Born at 

 Cromarty, Oct. 10, 1802, he was 

 apprenticed as a mason and 

 quarryman. 

 In 1834 he 

 became ac- 

 countant in a 

 bank at Cro- 

 marty, and 

 next year pub- 

 lished scenes 

 and Legends 

 ; t^e North 

 Scottish geologist ol Scotland. 



