The Revd Ernest Millar (1868-1917) was born on 2 May 1868, the son of a successful timber merchant. He was educated at Clifton and London University, and in 1891 obtained a mathematics degree at Ridley College, Cambridge. In the same year he was accepted as an Honorary Missionary by the Christian Missionary Society. Millar joined the Equatorial East African Mission in Uganda in 1892. He reached Mengo in the company of a party of seven other missionaries at the end of year, and remained there for most of the rest of his life. In 1902 he accompanied Sir Apolo Kagwe to England. From 1912 until his death he was the Secretary of the C.M.S. in Uganda. Millar died on 21 January 1917.