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MILES, JAMES WARLEY 251Episcopal Church (New York, 1851); The True Churchman (Charlottesville, Va.,1851); Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia,1857); The Bible and the Classics (New York, 1861).B. ACAB 4, 282–83; ANB 15, 219–20; BB, 71–73, 84–85; DAB 12, 480–81; DCA, 721–22; EDC, 327; ERS, 465; NCAB 7, 216; SPCK, 172–73; WWWA Historical vol.1607–1896, 352; David L. Holmes Jr., “William Meade and the Church of Virginia,1789–1829” (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1971); John Johns, A Memoir ofthe Life of the Right Rev. William Meade (Baltimore, 1867); Philip Slaughter, Memoirof the Life of the Rt. Rev. William Meade (Cambridge, 1881).MILES, JAMES WARLEY (24 November 1818, Orangeburg district, S.C.–14September 1875, Charleston, S.C.). Education: Studied at Waddel’s Academy,Willington, S.C., 1834–35; South Carolina College (now the University of SouthCarolina), 1835–37; studied law, 1837–38; graduated from General TheologicalSeminary, 1841. Career: Served several small missions in the diocese of SouthCarolina, 1841–43; missionary in the Near East, 1843–47; interim parish priest,Charleston, S.C., 1847–50; professor, College of Charleston, 1850–54, 1866–71;librarian, College of Charleston, 1856–63; interim parish priest, diocese of SouthCarolina, 1871–75.James Warley Miles, an Episcopal priest and theologian, was the son of JamesSanders Miles, a South Carolina planter, and Sarah Bond Warley. Although hestudied for two years at South Carolina College in Columbia, he was expelledwhen school authorities learned of his plans to fight a duel with another student.After briefly studying law, he entered General Theological Seminary, from whichhe graduated in 1841. Although he considered a plan to join James Lloyd Breck*and other seminarians in missionary work in Wisconsin, Miles eventually returnedto his home diocese, where he served as a deacon in several small parishes. Thiswork did not satisfy him, however, and after being ordained to the priesthood in1843, he received permission from his bishop to become a foreign missionary inConstantinople. Upon his return to South Carolina four years later, he held interimparish appointments until February 1850, when he was elected to a newly createdprofessorship in the history of philosophy and Greek literature at the College ofCharleston. Troubled by poor health, he resigned from the college in 1854 andsailed to Europe for a period of travel and rest.Miles’s real interests lay in the study of languages and philosophy. In the late1840s, he began publishing articles on those subjects in the Southern QuarterlyReview. At this time, he also put together a series of sermons he had preachedwhile serving as an assistant at St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, and publishedthem under the title Philosophic Theology (1849). After friends enticed him tocome back to the United States in 1856, Miles assumed responsibilities as thelibrarian of the College of Charleston. Often withdrawn and self-pitying, he enjoyedthat position because it allowed him to be among books and to pursue hisintellectual pursuits without appreciable interruption. He remained at the college