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Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a very important role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s.
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner was an able but inflexible British administrator whose pursuit of British suzerainty while he was high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Cape Colony helped to bring about the South African War (1899–1902).
May 9, 2018 · The British statesman Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925), served as high commissioner of South Africa and later as a Cabinet member. A public servant of great ability, he is closely associated with British imperialism.
Alfred Milner, later Viscount Milner (of St. James’s and Cape Town), (born March 23, 1854, Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt—died May 13, 1925, Sturry Court, near Canterbury, Kent, Eng.), British high commissioner in South Africa (1897–1905).
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a very important role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s.
Alfred Milner Milner, 1st Viscount, 1854–1925, British statesman and colonial administrator. He distinguished himself as a student at Oxford and was briefly a journalist in London. He became (1887) private secretary to George Goschen, chancellor of the exchequer, and served (1890–92) as undersecretary of finance in Egypt.
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.
Influenced by Goschen and Stead’s views of Britain’s role as an imperial power, Milner developed a philosophy that argued for the consolidation of colonies and the improvement of living standards both at home...
Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, 1824-1955. The archive covers practically the entire political and diplomatic career of Alfred Milner and includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks as well as other official and personal papers.
ALFRED MILNER 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 governor of the Isle of Man.
