Miles Romney

Miles Romney (July 13, 1806 – May 3, 1877) was an early English convert to Mormonism, Mormon pioneer and early settler of the American west, including St. George, Utah. In 1837, Romney and his wife Elizabeth joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints in a baptism ceremony just south of Preston, Lancashire, England. Soon after, they emigrated to the United States to join with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Romney was born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire in 1806. He was the son of George Romney, Jr. (whose father, George Romney, Sr., was first cousin to the English portrait artist also named George Romney) and Sarah King. On November 16, 1830, he married Elizabeth Gaskell. The couple eventually had nine children, including Miles Park Romney, and moved to the Preston area where they may have been practicising members of the Church of England congregation at St Mary's parish church in Penwortham.

Romney worked as a carpenter in the area, working as far afield as Preston. Seven years after the founding of Church of Christ (renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1838), in 1837 three missionaries were sent to Northwest England, and started preaching in Preston. Romney and his wife were early converts, baptized in the River Ribble just south of Preston. They then emigrated to join other members of the Church in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Once in the United States, Romney worked as an architect, designing or assisting in building early temples, tabernacles and other buildings important to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Romney worked in both Nauvoo and westward in Utah, and assisted in building the Nauvoo Temple.

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