Modern English biography

385 (1877). MILLS, WILLIAM (son of rev. W. Mills of Harrow). _b._ 1818; ed. at Harrow; chief engineer of London, Chatham and Dover railway from its foundation 1864 to 1891. _d._ 327 Clapham road, Surrey 8 Dec. 1891. _bur._ Norwood 12 Dec. MILTON, WILLIAM (2 son of Henry Milton of the war office). _b._ Camberwell, Surrey 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of Little Marlow 1854–9; C. of Newbury 1859–68; V. of Little Marlow 1880 to death; author of The sacrificial vestments, are they legal? 1866; The eucharist illustrated and cleared from error, sermons 1871; Fancies and fallacies of the opponents of the Purchas judgment 1875; Church perplexities 5 parts 1877–8; Mr. Parker’s fallacies refuted 1880; The only way to ritual peace 1881. _d._ 30 Aug. 1882. MILLTOWN, EDWARD NUGENT LEESON, 6 Earl of (2 son of 4 earl of Milltown 1799–1866). _b._ 9 Oct. 1835; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1856; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862; succeeded his brother as sixth earl 8 April 1871; an Irish representative peer 1881 to death; hon. commissioner in lunacy 1889; K.P. 7 Feb. 1889; P.C. Ireland 1888; introduced a bill for amendment of the larceny act, to permit flogging of burglars using fire-arms 1889; a well-known chairman of committees of house of lords; president of the Benevolent soc. of St. Patrick, London. _d._ Russborough house near Blessinton, Wicklow 31 May 1890. _The London Figaro 7 June 1890_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p._ 741, _portrait_; _Graphic 14 June 1890 p._ 663, _portrait_. MILLWARD, CHARLES. _b._ 1830; in a Greek merchant’s office in Liverpool; proprietor of The Porcupine, a journal of current events, social, political and satirical, Liverpool, No. 1 Oct. 6, 1860; hon. sec. of Savage club, London many years; a monumental mason, 15 Camden road, London; wrote Little snow white, extravaganza, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1871; Jack and the beanstalk, burlesque Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; Jack and the beanstalk, Park theatre 26 Dec. 1877; he was father of Jessie Millward actress. _d._ 1 Camden st. London 7 June 1892. _bur._ Highgate new cemet. 10 June. MILMAN, EGERTON CHARLES WILLIAM MILES (1 son of lieut.-general F. M. Milman _d._ 1856). _b._ 6 Feb. 1819; ensign Coldstream guards 24 April 1835, capt. 7 April 1848; lieut.-col. 37 foot 30 Nov. 1849 to 9 Nov. 1862; served in Canadian rebellion 1838; in India during the mutiny; M.G. on the staff at Mauritius 5 Sep. 1866 to death; commander of the forces at Mauritius. _d._ Richmond 23 Oct. 1869. MILMAN, FRANCIS MILES. _b._ 22 Aug. 1783; ensign Coldstream guards 3 Dec. 1800, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 8 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 82 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; severely wounded at battle of Talavera. _d._ 9 Berkeley sq. London 9 Dec. 1856. MILMAN, HENRY HART (3 son of sir Francis Milman, 1 baronet 1746–1821). _b._ Brook st. St. James’s, London 10 Feb. 1791; ed. at Greenwich, Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxford, fellow 1814, Newdigate prizeman 1812; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D. 1849; wrote hymns for Reginald Heber’s Hymnal 1827; V. of St. Mary’s, Reading 1818–35; professor of poetry at Oxford 1821–31; published a drama entitled Fazio 1815, 2 ed. 1816, which was produced without his knowledge as The Italian wife at Surrey theatre, produced as Fazio at Covent Garden 5 Feb. 1818, Ristori had it translated into Italian for her 1856; Bampton lecturer 1827; canon of Westminster 6 April 1835 to Nov. 1849; R. of St. Margaret’s, Westminster 1835–49; dean of St. Paul’s cathedral 1 Nov. 1849 to death, inaugurated evening services under the dome 28 Nov. 1858; author of Samor, lord of the bright city 1818, 2 ed. 1818; The fall of Jerusalem 1820, 5 ed. 1853; The martyr of Antioch 1822; Belshazzar 1822; Anne Boleyn 1826; The poetical works of H. H. Milman 3 vols. 1839; The history of Christianity from the birth of Christ to the abolition of paganism in the Roman empire 3 vols. 1840; History of Later Christianity, including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicolas the fifth 6 vols. 1854–5, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1867; A memoir of lord Macaulay 1862; The history of the Jews 3 vols. 1829, 7 ed. 1887; Annals of St. Paul’s cathedral 1868 and 20 other books; edited The works of Q. Horatius Flaccus 1849. _d._ Sunninghill, Berkshire 24 Sep. 1868. _bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 1 Oct., monument erected by public subscription in south aisle of the choir. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _ii_ 268–73 (1875); _Illustrated Review_, _iv_ 225–32; _Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians_ (1876) 593–5; _The living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827) 406–28; _The church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 51; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 188–94; _G.M. i_ 859 (1868), _ii_ 582 (1884); _I.L.N. xv_ 336 (1849) _portrait_, _xxiv_ 400 (1854) _portrait_, _liii_ 331, 340 (1868) _portrait_; _Julian’s Hymnology_ (1892) 736. MILMAN, HENRY SALUSBURY (son of Francis Miles Milman 1783–1856). _b._ 26 Nov. 1821; ed. at Eton and Merton coll. Oxf., postmaster 1840–44; fellow of All Souls 1844–58; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; an assist. enclosure commissioner 1877–82; an assist. land commissioner 1882; director of the Soc. of antiquaries 1880–93. _d._ 1 Cranley place, Onslow sq. London 22 Dec. 1893. _bur._ Kensal green 27 Dec. MILMAN, ROBERT (3 son of sir Wm. George Milman, 2 baronet 1781–1857). _b._ Easton in Gordano, Somerset 25 Jany. 1816; ed. at Westminster and Exeter coll. Oxf., scholar 2 June 1834; B.A. 1838, M.A. and D.D. 1867; C. of Winwick, Northamptonshire 1839–40; V. of Chaddleworth, Berkshire 1840–51; V. of Lambourn, Berkshire 1851–62, built a church and schools in the hamlet of Eastbury and restored the chancel of Lambourn church; V. of Great Marlow, Bucks. 1862–7; bishop of Calcutta, Jany. 1867 to death, consecrated in Canterbury cathedral 2 Feb., landed at Calcutta 31 March, his diocese extended over nearly a million square miles, received the Kol converts into church of England 1869; author of Meditations on confirmation 1850; Life of Torquato Tasso 2 vols. 1850; The love of the atonement 1853; Mitslav, or the conversion of Pomerania 1854; Inkerman, a poem 1855; Convalescence 1865. _d._ Rawul Pindi, Punjab 15 March 1876. _bur._ there 16 March, monument erected by Indian government in Calcutta cathedral. _F. M. Milman’s Memoir of Robert Milman_ (1879); _I.L.N. l_ 313 (1867) _portrait_, _lxviii_ 267 (1876). MILN, JAMES (son of James Maud Miln of Woodhill, Barry, Forfarshire). _b._ 1819; served in the navy in China war 1842; a merchant in China and India; studied Breton antiquities at Carnac 1873–80, excavated the hillocks of the Bosseno 1874–6 and explored three circular sepultures at Kermario, his collections of antiquities are in the Miln museum at Carnac; F.S.A. Scotland; author of Excavations at Carnac, Brittany. Edinb. 1877–81; Fouilles faites à Carnac, Brittany, les alignments de Kermario. Rennes 1881. _d._ Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1881. _Luco’s J. Miln et les trois sepultures circulaires. Tours_ (1881). MILNE, GEORGE. _b._ near Kirriemuir, Forfarshire about 1791; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; partner with A. Guild as writers to the signet at Dundee, on Guild’s death partner with Robert Miln; secretary to Society of writers Dundee 1821–8, president 1828; sheriff clerk depute for Dundee district about April 1822; a comr. of police for the fourth district of Dundee 1827; proprietor and editor of the Dundee Chronicle 1830, which ceased in about ten months but was revived by Milne in 1832; clerk to the Harbour trustees 1838 to death; in July 1869 his widow published a book containing his prayers on the chapters of St. Luke’s gospel. _d._ Dundee 19 Jany. 1865. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 249–53. MILNE, JOSHUA. _b._ 1775; actuary to Sun life assurance 15 June 1810, resigned 19 Dec. 1843; published A treatise on the valuation of annuities and assurances on lives and survivorships, on the construction of tables of mortality and on the probabilities and expectations of life 2 vols. 1815, his tables were generally adopted by insurance societies; the first to compute accurately the value of lives; contributed articles on annuities, bills of mortality and law of mortality to fourth ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. _d._ Clapton terrace, Upper Clapton, London 4 Jany. 1851. _J. Miln’s Correspondence with John Heysham in H. Lonsdale’s Life of John Heysham_ (1870) 137–73. MILNER, EDWARD (son of Henry Milner). _b._ Hillside, Darley, Derbyshire 20 Jany. 1819; ed. Bakewell gram. sch.; studied at Jardin des plantes, Paris; apprentice to and then colleague of sir Joseph Paxton in his later years in laying out estates and in landscape gardening; laid out some of the best gardens in the United Kingdom and on the continent 1850–84; laid out Prince’s park, Liverpool 1844, Manley hall, Manchester, Highbury park, Birmingham, Ashtead park, Epsom, and Osmaston, Derbyshire; principal of Crystal palace school of gardening 1881 to death, and was succeeded bys son Henry Ernest Milner, partner with his father 1870–84; landscape gardener 7 Victoria st. London, and author of The art of landscape gardening 1890. _d._ Hillside, Kingswood road, Dulwich Wood park, Norwood, Surrey 26 March