“Before another winter came Henry Bright had passed away in his home…” — Richard Monckton Milnes

“Before another winter came Henry Bright had passed away in his home amid his family and books, and had gone to his rest beneath the wreaths of his own Lancashire garden.”

A tender image of death framed by home, books and garden · Memorial essay, Henry Bright

Richard Monckton Milnes

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…

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