Frank Miles

George Frank Miles (1852-1891) was a handsome London artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies. He was also an early lover of Oscar Wilde. He died in an asylum.

In the 20th century Miles achieved brief notority as being an unlikely suspect for Jack the Ripper) theorists. The thin line of argument was that he lived on Tite Street near Melville MacNaghten; a cousin was an equerry to Prince Albert Victor (another unlikely suspect); and the brother of Montague Druitt, yet another suspect, was in the same regiment that Miles had been in.

References

Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

Donald Rumbelow, The Complete Jack the Ripper