Millar was born into an upper class Scottish family. His father was a
major-general. He was educated at
Lambrook Preparatory School,
Eton College and
Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1962 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, promoted
Master of Arts in 1966. He practised as a
barrister for 10 years. After that, he gained a
diploma in
theology from the
University of Durham. He was ordained deacon in 1976 and priest in 1977 at the age of 37. Millar has been a
prebendary of
St Paul's Cathedral since 1997. Millar is in the
Charismatic Evangelical tradition of the Church of England, but has usually concentrated on local missions and not on participation in controversies in the wider
Anglican Communion. However, in October 2007, he was reported to have said to an American church congregation at
Truro Church, in
Fairfax,
Virginia that "there is a war on for the very soul of the church" and to have told the congregation, which had left the
Episcopal Church of the United States in protest at its acceptance of homosexuality, "your steadfastness in the face of a new and speciously sophisticated manifestation of evil has won you many admirers all over the world." These comments were publicised on the internet, although not by him. == Growing the church ==