Frank Miles

George Frank Miles
Born	1852
Died	1891

George Frank Miles (1852-1891) was a well-known painter in London. He would use streetwalkers as models for his paintings.

The artist had supposedly died before the Whitechapel Murders (see Jack the Ripper), but it was subsequently discovered that he died afterward, in an asylum in 1891. One theory on the identity of Jack the Ripper showed a link to Melville MacNaghten because Miles and his roommate, Oscar Wilde, lived on Tite Street near MacNaghten. Additionally, Miles's cousin was an equiry to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence. The brother of Montague Druitt, another suspect, was in the same regiment that Miles had been in. The theory that Miles might have been Jack the Ripper had been produced by Thomas Toughill, but it never seems to have caught on -- possibly because it was too weak. It resurfaced in the 1970s and was mentioned in Donald Rumbelow's original Complete Jack the Ripper.