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  ALFRED MILNER, VISCOUNT MILNER - LoveToKnow Article on ALFRED MILNER, VISCOUNT MILNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Alfred Milner was educated first at Tubingen, 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 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 root of the evilthe political impotence of the injured.
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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.
Sir Alfred Milner reached the Cape in May 1897, and after the difficulties with President Kruger over the Aliens' Law had been patched up he was free by August to make himself personally acquainted with the country and peoples before deciding on the lines of policy to be adopted.
Lord Milner was appointed Secretary of State for War on April 19, 1918 and presided over the army council for the remainder of the war.
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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.
Its tenor was known, however, to the leading politicians at the Cape, and at the instance of JH Hofmeyr a conference was held (May 31 – June 5) at Bloemfontein between the high commissioner and the president of the Transvaal.
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.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Alfred Milner
Lord Alfred Milner (1854-1925), having already enjoyed a successful career as a colonial administrator, was brought into David Lloyd George's War Cabinet as Minister of War in the final seven months of the war.
Milner's approach to the administration of the new South Africa continued to be divisive however.
Milner further suggested that the Transvaal be permitted only a representative government rather than granted self-rule; a recommendation that was rejected by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.
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Milners Kindergarten is an informal reference to a group of Britons who served in the South African Civil Service under High Commissioner Alfred, Lord Milner, between the Boer War and the founding of the Union of South Africa.
Found among Milner's papers was his impressive Credo, which was soon published to great acclaim.
Viscount Milner was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 15 July 1902 for Alfred Milner, who had previously been created Baron Milner on his appointment to the Privy Council in 1901.
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Alfred Milner was born on March 23, 1854, at Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt (Germany).
Milner refused to alter Britain's policy, and he could not believe that the Boers were acting in good faith when they sought a peaceful compromise.
Milner as a leading imperialist is the subject of several works which emphasize his views and experiences in South Africa: Lionel Curtis, With Milner in South Africa (1951); Edward Crankshaw, The Forsaken Idea: A Study of Viscount Milner (1952); and Vladimir Halperin, Lord Milner and the Empire: The Evolution of British Imperialism (1952).
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 MILNER, ALFRED MILNER, VISCOUNT (1854 ) - Encyclopedia Britannica - MILNER, ALFRED MILNER, VISCOUNT (1854 ) - JCSM's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MILNER, ALFRED MILNER, VISCOUNT (1854), British statesman and colonial administrator, was born at Bonn on the 23rd of March 1854, the only son of Charles Milner, M.D., whose wife was a daughter of Major-General Ready, sometime
Its tenor was known, however, to the leading politicians at the Cape, and at the instance of J. Hofmeyr a conference was held (May 31June 5) at Bloemfontein between the high commissioner and the president of the Transvaal.
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
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Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925), British statesman, born in Giessen, Hesse (now in Germany), and educated at the universities of...
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892), English poet, one of the great representative figures of the Victorian age.
Trenchard, Hugh, 1st Viscount (1873-1956), British officer and air-marshal, largely responsible for the foundation of the Royal Air Force.
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Countess Violet Georgina Milner, 1872-1958, gave almost all the personal archive of her second husband, Alfred, Lord Milner to New College in 1934.
The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts reproduced the Report on the papers of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner (MSS Milner dep 1-684) for the Bodleian Library in 1979.
New College has an oil painting of Viscount Milner by Max Balfour, a drawing made in 1903 by GP Jacomb Hood and three cartoons, drawn in 1906, 1911 and 1913.
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 Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Milner was largely in charge of the postwar settlement, and his administration undertook the task of resettling the Boers on their farms.
Milner persuaded the colonial secretary to permit the importation of Chinese labour for the short-handed gold-mining industry; public opinion in Britain was outraged, and the Conservatives were defeated in the British election of January 1906.
Milner had already resigned his South African posts and returned to England (1905), where he intended to retire from public life, and he began work on The Nation and the Empire (1913).
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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:
Kingdom and the other members of the empire; and in later years he took an active part in advocating the cause of tariff reform and colonial preference.
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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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.
After the war, Milner's financial policies aided economic recovery, but his importation of indentured Chinese laborers raised strong opposition.
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 Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Milner (of Saint James's and Cape Town), Alfred Milner, Viscount
Born in Milwaukee, Wis., Alfred Lunt was a leading man of the American stage for nearly half a century.
During his lifetime Alfred Nobel reaped millions of dollars in profits from his invention and manufacture of high explosives.
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Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1911) 1905 - 1912
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 1918 - 1919
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Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner (March 23, 1854 - 1925), British statesman and colonial administrator, was born at Bonn, the only son of Charles Milner, M.D., whose wife was a daughter of
Alfred John North (1855 - 1917) was an Australian ornithologist.
Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism.
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Alfred Milner was educated first at Tübingen, then at King s College, London, and under Benjamin Jowett Jowett as a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1872 to 1876.
He graduated in 1877, with a first class in classics, having won the Hertford, Craven, Eldon and Derby scholarships, and was elected to a fellowship of New College, Oxford New College.
Milner returned to England in 1892, and was appointed chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, being made C.B. in 1894 and knight K.C.B. in 1895.
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 Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st viscount - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount, 1854-1925, British statesman and colonial administrator.
Milner was one of the Conservative lords who opposed the revolutionary budget of 1909 introduced by David Lloyd George
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Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925), British statesman, born in Giessen, Hessen (now in Germany), and educated at the universities of...
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Harmsworth, Harold Sidney, 1st Viscount Rothermere: brother, Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe
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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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Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1911) (December 10, 1905 - June 12, 1912)
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 JOSEPH MILNER - LoveToKnow Article on JOSEPH MILNER
His published works include essays and numerous sermons, but his best known work is the History of the Church of Christ (London, 1794-1809).
He lived to complete the first three volumes, and two more were added by his brother, Isaac Milner (1750 1820), dean of Carlisle, who re-edited the whole work in 1810.
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 Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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A contest between boats representing nations, the trophy is open to challenge by any boat under 40 feet (12 metres) in length, all parts of which have been produced in the country represented.
British newspaper proprietor who, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, built the most successful journalistic empire in British history and created popular journalism in that country.
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*Baron Milner of Leeds, a barony in the peerage of the United Kingdom
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 O'Brien (1979) Milner: Viscount Milner of St. James's and Cape Town, 1854-1925
O'Brien (1979) Milner: Viscount Milner of St. James's and Cape Town, 1854-1925
Milner: Viscount Milner of St. James's and Cape Town, 1854-1925
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 Milner, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount
In 1897, Milner was appointed high commissioner for
His efforts to gain political rights for British settlers in Boer territories heightened growing tension between the rival groups and helped precipitate (1899) the
, who became known as “Milner's kindergarten.” Milner was one of the Conservative lords who opposed the revolutionary budget of 1909 introduced by David
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