Richard Monckton Milnes

  • Full Name: Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  • English

Richard Monckton Milnes was a notable English poet and politician. - AsNotedIn

He was famous for the interest he took in notorieties, and especially in notorious sinners, always finding some good reason for taking an indulgent view of their misdeeds. I have heard that on the occasion of some murderer being hanged, his sister, Lady Galway, expressed her satisfaction, saying that if he had been acquitted she would have been sure to have met him next week at one of her brother's Thursday morning breakfasts. Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886)

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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1840/07/06 Richard M Milnes and William M Thackeray arrive at the gallows: "There it stands, black and ready, jutting out from a little door in the prison." - WMT Witness St Sepulchre-without-Newgate London
1845/10/00 IN the autumn of 1845, Sir Henry Taylor, Thomas Carlyle and Richard Milnes sojourn at the Grange, the home of Lord and Lady Ashburton, near Alresford. Visitor The Grange at Northington Northington
1846/00/00 William D Ticknor and Company publish "Poems of Many Years" by Richard Monckton Milnes. Author Old Corner Bookstore Boston
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