Modern English biography

MILNER, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ 1804; ensign 34 foot 1 Jany. 1824; captain 94 foot 1 May 1828, lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1841 to 29 Dec. 1854 when he retired on full pay as M.G. _d._ Albion hotel, Plymouth 14 Jany. 1855. MILNER, MARY. _m._ rev. Joseph Milner, vicar of St. Lawrence, Appleby, _d._ 1883; edited The christian mother’s magazine 2 vols. 1844, title changed to The Englishwoman’s magazine 9 vols. 1845–54; The people’s gallery of engravings, vols. i to iv and vol. v, Nos. 1 to 4. London 1848–9; author of The christian mother or maternal duties exemplified in the Old and New Testament 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The life of Isaac Milner, dean of Carlisle 1842; Sketches illustrative of important periods in the history of the world 1843, Second series 1847; The garden, the grove and the field, a garland of the months 1852. _d._ Appleby vicarage, Penrith 10 May 1863. MILNER, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Milner, safe maker, _d._ 1849 aged 72). With his father a metal manufacturer at Sheffield to 1827, and with him removed to Liverpool in 1827; took out patent for fire-resisting safes 1840 and 2 other patents; founded Milner’s Phœnix safe works, Liverpool covering an acre of ground 1852 employing 50 workmen, in 1860 they had 500 hands; the London depôt was at Moorgate st., City. _Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) 151, (1860) 130–1. MILNER, SIR WILLIAM MORDAUNT EDWARD, 5 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Milner, 4 bart. of Bolton Percy, Yorks. _d._ 1855). _b._ Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 20 June 1820; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; M.P. York 1848–57; succeeded 25 March 1855; kept race horses from 1841. _d._ Nun Appleton 12 Feb. 1867. _Sporting Review_, _lvii_ 155–6 (1867); _G.M. iii_ 531 (1867). MILROY, GAVIN. _b._ Edinburgh 1805; ed. at Edinb. high school and univ., M.D. July 1828; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1847, F.R.C.P. 1853; a general practitioner in London; co-editor of Johnson’s Medico-Chirurgical Review 1844–7; superintendent medical inspector general board of health 1849–50 and 1853–5; sent by colonial office to Jamaica 1851; member of sanitary commission sent out to British army in the Crimea 1855–6, drew up with John Sutherland the report of its transactions; medical commissioner in the West Indies 1871–2; one of chief founders of Epidemiological Society 1850; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of Quarantine and the plague 1846; The cholera not to be arrested by quarantine 1847; The health of the royal navy 1862. _d._ 21 Church road, Richmond, Surrey 11 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.; bequeathed £2000 to Royal college of physicians for endowment of a lectureship on state medicine and public health. MILTON, DANIEL. Disputed the headship of the Christian Israelites with John Wroe 1857, and again after Wroe’s death in 1864; sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for defacing the property of Melbourne house, Wakefield, the property of the Christian Israelites 14 Dec. 1863. _J. H. Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies_ (1864) 223–4. MILTON, SIR JOHN (son of Henry Milton of Heathfield lodge, Middlesex). _b._ 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; entered war office 1840; assistant accountant general of the army 1860 and accountant general 1871–78; C.B. 21 Feb. 1874; knighted at Windsor castle 27 Nov. 1878. _d._ Bladon terrace, Streatham common, Surrey 29 Nov. 1880. MILWARD, CLEMENT (3 son of Clement Milward of Chewton house, Somerset, admiral). _b._ 20 Aug. 1821; barrister M.T. 6 Nov. 1846, bencher 9 May 1865, treasurer 1880; Q.C. 16 Feb. 1865; one of leaders of northern circuit; practiced before parliamentary committees of houses of lords and commons; author of The county courts act, the amendment act and the extension and amendment act, with rules and practice 1850. _d._ London 26 Oct. 1890. MILWARD, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1826; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844, served in the Crimea 1855; D.A.Q.M.G. in Chinese war 1860; in Abyssinian campaign 1868; deputy director of ordnance; inventor and constructor of the light steel guns for mountain service used in Abyssinia, on the Gold Coast and in India; colonel 15 Aug. 1868; lieut.-col. R.A. 3 Feb. 1866 to death; aide de camp to the queen 1868 to death; superintendent of royal laboratory, Woolwich 1870 to death; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Woolwich 31 Dec. 1874. _bur._ Charlton. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 57, 58 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xi_ 92 (1875), _portrait_. MIMPRISS, ROBERT (son of an official in Deptford dockyard). _b._ Deptford 14 Jany. 1797; ed. at Blackheath; purser on board a foreign merchantman 1813; devoted himself to development of Sunday schools from 1821; devised the Mimpriss system of graduated simultaneous instruction based on Edward Greswell’s Harmony of the gospels; engaged in writing books in connection with his system 1830–50, travelled repeatedly round the country setting forth its merits and advocating millenarian and teetotal principles; author of A pictorial, geographical, chronological and historical chart 1832; Gospel recreations for Sabbath evenings 1836; The treasury harmony of the four evangelists 2 vols. 1849–51, republished as The gospel treasury, new ed. 1884; The Mimpriss system of graduated simultaneous instruction 1855. _d._ Clapham, London 20 Dec. 1875. _Robert Mimpriss: a memoir of his life and work_ (1876), _portrait_. MINGAYE, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ 1785; entered navy 16 Sep. 1798; served on shore at capture of Cape of Good Hope, Jany. 1806; captain 29 Jany. 1822; acting capt. of the Royal George yacht 23 July 1822; commanded the Hyperion 42 guns in Newhaven harbour 8 Jany. 1825 to 1831; pensioned 18 Dec. 1858; admiral on h.p. 27 April 1863. _d._ Hyperion lodge, Rosherville, Kent 30 Nov. 1865. MINIFIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Devonshire 14 Aug. 1805; an architect and bookseller at Baltimore, U.S. of America 1828; curator of Maryland academy of sciences; professor of drawing at Maryland institute schools of art; author of Text-book of mechanical drawing. Baltimore 1849; A text-book of geometrical drawing 3 ed. 1851; Essay on the theory and application of color 1854; Popular lectures on drawing and design 1854. _d._ Baltimore 24 Oct. 1880. MINTER, JOHN MOOLENBURGH. _b._ 1815; L.S.A. 1836; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1837, F.R.C.S. 1857; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1868; surgeon R.N. 30 Dec. 1837, surgeon in Implacable on coast of Syria 1840; surgeon in the field during Burmese war 1851; deputy inspector general 18 April 1859, inspector general 22 March 1872; hon. physician to the queen to death; surgeon extraordinary to prince of Wales, travelled with him in Egypt and the Holy Land 1861–2; travelled with prince and princess of Wales on the continent; deputy inspector naval hospital, Malta; inspector general naval hospital, Plymouth 1 April 1873, retired 2 April 1875. _d._ Mount Priory, Plympton, Devon 15 Dec. 1891. MINTO, GILBERT ELLIOTT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND, 2 Earl of (eld. son of sir Gilbert Elliot, 1 earl of Minto 1751–1814). _b._ Lyons, France 16 May or Nov. 1782; ed. Eton and univ. of Edinb.; M.P. Ashburton 1806–7; M.P. co. Roxburgh 1812 to 21 June 1814; styled viscount Melgund 1813–4; succeeded as 2 earl 21 June 1814; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to court of Berlin 18 July 1832 to Sep. 1834; P.C. 15 Aug. 1832; G.C.B. 20 Dec. 1834; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1836; first lord of the admiralty 15 Sep. 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; an elder brother of the Trinity house 5 Dec. 1837 to death; lord keeper of the privy seal 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; envoy extraord. to Sardinia, Tuscany, Sicily and Switzerland 4 Sep. 1847 to 1848; governor of naval college, Portsmouth; assumed additional surname of Murray-Kynynmond by r.l. _d._ 48 Eaton square, London 31 July 1859. _Doyle’s Official baronage_, _ii_ 502–3 (1886), _portrait_. MINTO, WILLIAM HUGH ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOND, 3 Earl of. _b._ Minto castle, Roxburghshire 19 March 1814; styled viscount Melgund 1817–59; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1836; M.P. Hythe 1837–41; contested Rochester 30 June 1841; M.P. Greenock 1847–52; contested Glasgow 10 July 1852; M.P. Clackmannan 1857–9; chairman of royal commission for survey of Scotland 1857; succeeded as 3 earl of Minto 31 July 1859; K.T. 13 May