“The list of our Society may include profounder scholars and men of larger views and more general sympathies, but no better friend or more conscientious and accomplished English gentleman than Edward Cheney.”
About Richard Monckton Milnes
19 June 1809–11 August 1885
Richard Monckton Milnes, later Lord Houghton, was born on 19 June 1809 in London, into a family whose wealth, political standing, and Yorkshire connections gave him access to the governing and literary worlds of nineteenth-century Britain. He died on 11 August 1885 at Fryston Hall, near Pontefract in Yorkshire, the…