Milner
ALFRED, 1st Viscount V." In verse he produced MILNER MILTON Bonn, Germany, March 23, 1854. Edu- MILTON, town of Norfolk co., Mass., cated at Tübingen, King's College, Lon- 7 miles S. of Boston, on the Neponset don, and Balliol, Oxford. Studied law. river, New York, New Haven and Hart- Became a journalist 1882-1885. Secretary ford railroad. Contains homes of many York, to C. J. (afterward Lord) Goschen, Boston business people. Has academy Chancellor of the Exchequer 1887-1889. and meteorological observatory. Large Under Secretary of Finance, Egypt, stone quarries in the vicinity. Town 1889-1892., Chairman Board of Internal meeting form of government. Pop.
Revenue 1892-1897, High Commissioner (1910) 7,924; (1920) 9,382. for South Africa 1897, and Governor of Good Hope. Created Viscount 1902. Governor Transvaal and Orange River Colonies 1901. Resigned offices and returned to England in 1905. Lord Milner was severely criticized in Liberal party circles as sharing the responsibility for the South African War with Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain.
The House of Commons indirectly expressed disapproval of some of his acts in the Transvaal. The House of Lords placed on record its appreciation of his services in the colonies and an address praising his work and signed by 370,000 names was presented in August, 1906.
Secretary of State for War 1918-1919.