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  Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner Summary
Alfred Milner was educated first at Tübingen, then at King's College London and under Jowett as a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford from 1872 to 1876.
On May 4 Milner penned a memorable dispatch to the Colonial Office, in which he insisted that the remedy for the unrest in the Transvaal was to strike at the root of the evil---the political impotence of the injured.
In March 1906, a motion censuring Lord Milner for an infraction of the Chinese labour ordinance, in not forbidding light corporal punishment of coolies for minor offences in lieu of imprisonment, was moved by a Radical member of the House of Commons.
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Alfred Milner was educated first at Tübingen, then at King's College, London, and under Jowett as a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1872 to 1876.
Milner returned to England in 1892, and was appointed chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, being made C.B. in 1894 and K.C.B. in 1895.
On May 4 Milner penned a memorable despatch to the Colonial Office, in which he insisted that the remedy for the unrest in the Transvaal was to strike at the root of the evilthe political impotence of the injured.
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 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount 1854-1925, British statesman and colonial administrator.
In 1897, Milner was appointed high commissioner for South Africa and governor-general of Cape Colony.
Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner of St James's and of Cape Town
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Hofmann, August Wilhelm von (1818-1892), German chemist, born in Giessen, and educated at the University of Giessen.
Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925), British statesman.
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Milner was educated at Leeds University and became a solicitor.
Milner's son, Arthur, born in 1923, succeeded him as Baron Milner of Leeds and topped the poll of hereditary Labour peers to stay in the House of Lords in 1999.
Milner has made major contributions to the understanding of the role of the frontal lobes in memory processing, in the area of organizing information.
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 Milner Alfred 1st Viscount Milner - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth was born in Chapelizod,...
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe: brother, Harmsworth, Harold Sidney,1st Viscount Rothermere
Harmsworth, Harold Sidney, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940), newspaper manager and businessman, who established a newspaper publishing empire in...
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 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In March 1906 a motion censuring Lord Milner for an infraction of the Chinese labor ordinance, in not forbidding light corporal punishment of coolies for minor offences in lieu of imprisonment, was moved by a Radical member of the House of Commons.
Since Milner was the only Briton who had experience in civil direction of a war, Lloyd George turned to him in December, 1916 when he formed his national government.
Found among Milner's papers was his Credo, which was soon published to great acclaim.
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 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Milner eeturned to England in 1892 and shortly thereafter published his ''England and Egypt'', which at once became the authoritative account of the work done since the British occupation.
When war broke out, October 1899, Milner rendered the military authorities "unfailing support and wise counsels," bbeing, in Lord Roberts's phrase "one whose courage never faltered."In February 1901 he was called upon to undertake the administration of the two Boer states, both now annexed to the British Empire, though the war was still in progress.
Milner was probably the mist competent member of the war cabinet after the prime minister himself and consequently became Lloyd George's fire fighter in many crises.
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 Germain George Sackville 1st Viscount Sackville - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Germain, George Sackville, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716-85), British soldier and statesman, son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st duke of Dorset,...
Townshend, George, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend (1724-1807), English soldier and lord lieutenant of Ireland.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (March 23, 1854–May 13, 1925), was a controversial German-born British statesman and colonial administrator.
He was born in Gießen, Hesse-Darmstadt (now part of west-central Germany), the only son of Charles Milner, M.D., whose wife was a daughter of Major-General John Ready, former Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island and later the Isle of Man.
Milner was referring to the situation in the Transvaal where after the discovery of gold thousands of fortune seekers had flocked from all over Europe, but mostly Britain.
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 VISCOUNT ALFRED MILNER... - Online Information article about VISCOUNT ALFRED MILNER...
Alfred Milner was educated first at Tubingen, then at See also:
On the 4th of May Milner penned a memorable despatch to the Colonial Office, in which he insisted that the remedy for the unrest in the Transvaal was to strike at the See also:
Frere, and.a public address, signed by over 370,000 persons, was presented to Lord Milner expressing high appreciation of the services rendered by him in Africa to the crown and empire.
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 AllRefer.com - Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount, British And Irish History, Biographies
Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount 1854–1925, British statesman and colonial administrator.
After serving (1918) as secretary of war, he was (1919–21) colonial secretary and in 1920 led a commission to Egypt that recommended Egyptian independence.
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 Trenchard Hugh 1st Viscount - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Trenchard, Hugh, 1st Viscount (1873-1956), British officer and air-marshal, largely responsible for the foundation of the Royal Air Force.
After World War I, the chief European proponents of the development of air power were Hugh Trenchard, leader of the Royal Flying Corps and first...
Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925), British statesman, born in Giessen, Hesse (now in Germany), and educated at the universities of...
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 thePeerage.com - Alfred Milner, 1st and last Viscount Milner and others
     Alfred Milner, 1st and last Viscount Milner was born on 23 March 1854.
Alicia Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, daughter of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney and Margaret Susan Mitford, on 16 February 1898.
He was created 1st Earl of Balfour [U.K.] on 5 May 1922, with a special remainder to the heirs of his brother, Gerald William Balfour, and his nephews, Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour and Oswald Herbert Campbell Balfour.
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 Balliol College Library: Jowett Papers - Index I
Goschen, George Joachim, 1st Viscount Goschen (1831-1907), Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1865, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1866, President of the Poor Law Board 1868-71, First Lord of the Admiralty 1871-4, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1886-92, First Lord of the Admiralty 1895-1900, Chancellor of Oxford University 1903-1907.
Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925) Balliol 1873, Private Secretary to G.J. Goschen (q.v.) 1884-5 and 1886-90, Worked in Egypt 1890-2, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue 1892-5, High Commissioner for South Africe 1897-1905, Member of the War Cabinet 1916-18, Secretary of State for War 1918 and Colonial Secretary 1918-21.
Her son, Newton Wallop, Viscount Lymington (the 6th Earl after 1891), was at Balliol in 1875: it is not clear whether BJ met his mother because of Lymington's time at Balliol (as happened with Henrietta, Lady Stanley of Alderley [q.v.]), or Lymington went up to Balliol because of his parents' regard for BJ.
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Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (March 23, 1854-May 13, 1925), was a controversial British statesman and colonial administrator.
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 1920 | Political Events: The People's Chronology
Former British sea lord John A. "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, dies at London July 10 at age 79, having gained a popular reputation second only to that of Lord Nelson more than a century ago.
Egyptian nationalist Sa'd Zaghlul holds meetings at London during the summer with the British diplomat Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (see 1919).
Milner agrees unofficially to the terms that Sir Reginald Wingate rejected in 1918, but Zaghlul fears that an agreement with the British will undermine his position at home so he returns to Egypt without having endorsed any agreement (see 1921).
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'Alfred Milner, 1854-1925, was a prominent statesman who became High Commissioner in South Africa, Governor of Transvaal in 1901 and Secretary for War in 1918.
He was created Viscount in 1902 for his services before and during the Boer War.
In incised capitals on the bronze medallion, around the perimeter: ALFRED VISCOUNT MILNER SERVANT OF THE STATE 1854-1925 Below the medallion, in a wood-framed, glass-fronted plaque, printed in capitals: ALFRED VISCOUNT MILNER / SERVANT OF THE STATE / 1854-1925 / CHAIRMAN of TOYNBEE HALL / 1912-1925.
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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), Foreign Secretary.
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner (1854-1925), High Commissioner for South Africa.
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928), Prime Minister.
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     Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st and last Viscount Cecil of Chelwood was educated between 1878 and 1881 in Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England.
She married Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st and last Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, son of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and Georgina Alderson, on 22 January 1889 in St.
She married, secondly, Alfred Milner, 1st and last Viscount Milner on 26 February 1921.
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 1850-1920Chapter6
Alfred W. Bevis of the Birmingham School Board.
The 1st battalion fought in Tunisia and at Anzio.
The 13th battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry included some Masters of Fox Hounds like the Earl of Longford and Viscount Ennismore, two companies of Ulster Protestant Unionists including the Earl of Leitrim, a whiskey distiller Sir John Power, and Captain James Craig (later Viscount Craigavon), and a company raised by the Earl of Donoughmore.
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 Columbia Encyclopedia- Milner Alfred Milner 1st Viscount - AOL Research & Learn
Columbia Encyclopedia- Milner Alfred Milner 1st Viscount - AOL Research & Learn
During this period he gathered around him a group of able young administrators, including Philip Kerr, later marquess of Lothian, who became known as Milner's kindergarten.
Milner was one of the Conservative lords who opposed the revolutionary budget of 1909 introduced by David Lloyd George, but in 1916 Lloyd George appointed him to his war cabinet.
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 Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st viscount - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
In 1897, Milner was appointed high commissioner for South Africa
Milner was one of the Conservative lords who opposed the revolutionary budget of 1909 introduced by David Lloyd George
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 1920: Information from Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Windowpanes are knocked out for 10 blocks around; clerks in offices as high as the sixth floor suffer severe burns; pedestrians hit by metal shards suffer crushed skulls, smashed legs, and gashed arms, and the dead include millionaire Edward Sweet, who once owned Sweet's restaurant at Fulton and South streets.
Banker-philanthropist Jacob H. Schiff dies of heart disease at New York September 24 at age 73, leaving an estate of $50 million; former Bank of England governor Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, has died at Epsom Surrey, January 6 at age 64 as world economies struggle to revive in the wake of the Great War.
Alfred E. Smith has warned that the state has a serious housing shortage (as does Britain, most of Europe, and much of America).
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Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, British And Irish History, Biographies
Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor[dOO´EvOr] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1945, British statesman, of Welsh extraction.
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