Viscount Milner

Viscount Milner (1854-1925) was a British High Commissioner of South Africa who took charge in 1897, and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies since 1901. He was a student of Balliol (graduating with a first class in classics), and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1881. He was Private Secretary to Mr. Goschen (1887-1889), Under-Secretary for Finance in Egypt (1889-1892), and Chairman of the Inland Revenue Board, from 1892 to 1897, when he succeeded Lord Rosmead at the Cape. He represented the Mother Country with great ability before and during the Boer War. He visited England and raised to the peerage in 1901. He declined the Colonial Secretaryship in 1903. He resigned in 1905.

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