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- 1953 - 1989 (Accumulation)
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Thomas Reagh Millman was born in Kensington, Prince Edward Island on June 14, 1905. He was educated at Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, University College, Toronto (B.A. 1931, M.A. 1933), Wycliffe College (L.Th. 1933, B.D. 1938) and McGill University where he received his doctorate in 1943, which was published with the University of Toronto Press (1947).
He was ordained deacon in 1933 and ordained priest in 1934. From 1935 until 1941 Dr. Millman was lecturer and dean of residence at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. From 1950-1954 he was professor of church history at Huron College, London, Ontario, and from 1954 until he retired in 1974 he was professor of church history at Wycliffe College. He was also associated with the Toronto School of Theology. He was awarded the degree of D.D. by the University of Western Ontario in 1953, by Wycliffe College in 1974 and Trinity College in 1977 and the degree of D.C.L. by the University of King’s College, Halifax in 1974.
As a parish priest Dr. Millman served first at Grafton in the Diocese of Toronto, then from 1941 to 1949 he was rector of Dunham and Frelighsberg (St. Armand East) in the Diocese of Montreal and finally at Alvinston with Inwood in the Diocese of Huron. He was made a Canon of St. James Cathedral, Toronto in 1969 and was an honorary assistant for over 40 years at St. Timothy’s Church, Toronto.
Dr. Millman was the first archivist of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, serving from 1955 until 1974, as well as a founder of the Canadian Church Historical Society. While in the Diocese of Montreal he was one of the founders of the Montreal Diocesan Archives, along with the Reverends S.B. Lindsay and R.K. Naylor and Professor J.I. Cooper.
Dr. Millman was a church historian who published many works. His first two books were biographies, Jacob Mountain, First Lord Bishop of Quebec (1947) and The Life of the Right Reverend, the Honourable Charles Stewart, Second Anglican Bishop of Quebec (1953). In 1983 he published Atlantic Canada to 1900: A History of the Anglican Church, which was started by Canon A.R. Kelly; Dr. Millman completed the book after the death of Canon Kelly in 1961. Dr. Millman was also a contributor to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and was also published in the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society.
Dr. Millman married Margaret McLeod of Lennoxville, Quebec in 1944. She died in 1991.
Dr. Millman died on November 22, 1996 in Toronto. His funeral took place on November 25, 1996 at St. Timothy’s Church, Toronto. He is buried at St. Stephens, Irishtown, Prince Edward Island.
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File contains notes that were used in researching various articles and books. Included are a letter from McGill University regarding the research of French Protestantism; Two photocopies of the title page of A Charge delivered to the diocese of Quebec. By Jacob Mountain D.D. Lord Bishop of Quebec, printed by John Neilson, NO 3 Mountain-street; 1803.”
Research materials include a letter from the General Synod of the Church of England, London regarding a research request on a planned paper on Canadian Anglican Histiography; a photocopy of Obituary of Bishop Spencer from The Times, London, Feb 27, 1872 and an undated photocopy of the biography of Richard Kimball, the Bishop of Jamaica from The International Magazine.
Research materials related to the Canadian Biography article on Bishop O’Meara include a series of handwritten notes regarding Bishop O’Meara; a photocopy of the biography of Rev. Canon Thomas Robert O’Meara from the ‘Seventy-Eighth Session of the Synod”; handwritten and typed notes entitled “Outlines of Contents of Proposed Chapter on the Principalship of the Second Principal of Wycliffe College, Thomas Robert O’Meara”. There is also a handwritten note attached to 2 pages of notes stating “When writing the O’Meara chapter for The Enduring Word I visited T.R O’Meara’s daughter Mrs. McLean in her apartment near York Mills.”