MILLER, Edgar Allen (1942-2025)
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Edgar Miller, management consultant who became a fierce champion of the Brexit campaign
He assembled a formidable group of economists and politicians to argue the case that the UK would be better off out of the EU
Edgar “Eddie” Miller, who has died aged 82, was a London-based American management consultant who became passionately involved in the Brexit campaign.
In the run-up to the 2016 referendum, Miller observed that the official Leave campaign, though strong on emotional appeal, was in danger of losing the economic argument. He set out to corral a disputacious collection of free-market academics and Eurosceptic politicians as “Economists for Brexit” to present a more coherent case for UK prosperity outside the EU.
Professor Patrick Minford of Cardiff Business School chaired the group, while Miller – “an old-fashioned mover-and-shaker,” as one colleague put it, and a highly effective fundraiser, by turns charming and forceful – acted as convener and chief whip [….]
Edgar Allen Miller was born on November 9 1942 into a farming family from west Texas. Brought up in Dallas with four younger sisters, he won scholarships to the University of Texas and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent his early career with the Texas Instruments company before moving to Silicon Valley to work for Fairchild Semiconductor, one of the pioneers of the digital age […]
Edgar Miller married, in Dallas in 2000, Gillian Chalk, daughter of Sir Gervais Blois, Bt, and mother of Alex Chalk, the former Conservative MP who was Lord Chancellor in Rishi Sunak’s cabinet. The marriage was dissolved in 2020 and he is survived by the partner of his final years, Clare Copeman.
Edgar Miller, born November 9 1942, died March 27 2025