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British politician (1820–1898) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Baronet (21 April 1820 – 28 April 1898), was a British Liberal Member of Parliament.
Sir Frederick Milbank, Bt | |
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Member of Parliament for Richmond | |
In office 1885–1886 | |
Preceded by | New creation |
Succeeded by | Sir George Elliot |
Member of Parliament for North Riding of Yorkshire | |
In office 1865–1885 | |
Preceded by | William Duncombe William John Sawrey Morritt |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Frederick Acclom Milbank 21 April 1820 |
Died | 28 April 1898 78) Barningham, County Durham | (aged
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse |
Alexina Harriet Don
(m. 1844, died) |
Relations | William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland (grandfather) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | Mark Milbank Lady Augusta Vane |
Milbank was born on 21 April 1820 in London. He was the son of Lady Augusta Vane and Mark Milbank, MP for Camelford and High Sheriff of Yorkshire.[1] Among his siblings were Mark William Vane Milbank (who married a daughter of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet),[2] and Henry John Milbank (who married a daughter of the 8th Baron Grey of Groby, and Lady Susan Osborne, a daughter of the 8th Duke of Leeds).[3]
His paternal grandparents were Dorothy (née Wise) Milbank and William Milbank, who bought Thorp Perrow Hall, Snape Castle, and Snape village in 1798.[4][5] His maternal grandparents were William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland and Lady Catherine Powlett (a daughter of the 6th Duke of Bolton).[6]
In 1842, Milbank inherited estates at Hart and Hartlepool in county Durham from his maternal grandfather, the 1st Duke of Cleveland.[7] He served as a Lieutenant in the 79th Highlanders.[2]
As a Liberal,[8] Milbank was elected to the House of Commons for the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1865, a seat he held until 1885, and then represented Richmond until 1886. On 16 May 1882 he was created a Baronet, of Well in the County of York, and of Hart in the County of Durham.[9]
In 1844 Milbank married Alexina "Aline" Harriet Don (c. 1826–1919),[10] daughter of Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet and the author Grace Jane Stein (a daughter of Edinburgh banker and distiller John Stein). They were parents of:[11]
Sir Frederick died in April 1898, aged 78, at Barningham Park, Barnard Castle, in Barningham, County Durham.[15] He was succeeded by his second son Powlett as his eldest son predeceased him without male issue.[16]
Reportedly, Sir Frederick had a child, named Madeleine Augusta Crabb, out of wedlock with the stage actress (and artist's model to Dante Gabriel Rossetti) known as Ruth Herbert (née Louisa Ruther Herbert Maynard). Madeleine married Brig.-Gen. Sir Conyers Surtees, MP for Gateshead, in 1887.[17]
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