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 1884. The Gardener’s chronicle (1884), portrait.
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.