The Right Rev. Dr. Milman, new Bishop of Calcutta

1867

Engraved from a photograph by Mayall

The Illustrated London News (1869)

The Right Rev. Robert Milman, D.D., the new Bishop of Calcutta, who has gone out to take charge of his diocese, is a son of the late Sir W. G. Milman, Bart., and a nephew of the Very Rev. E. Hart Milman, D.D., the present Dean of St. Paul's. He was educated at Westminster School; and among his contemporaries there may be mentioned the late Bishop of Calcutta, Dr. Cotton. [Continued below]

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Having gained a scholarship at Exeter College, he proceeded to Oxford, and, in Easter Term, 1837, took a second class, at the same time with Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, who has recently been appointed Governor of Bombay. In the year 1839 he was ordained Deacon by the then Bishop of Peterborough to the curacy of Winwich; and, soon after taking Priest's orders, he was nominated by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster to the vicarage of Chaddleworth, Berkshire, where he remained until 1851, when he was presented to the vicarage of Lambourne, Berkshire. Those who knew the condition of the parish of Lambourne in 1851 and in 1862 will bear witness to the efficiency of his work there: the chancel of the church was restored, schools were built, and the church and schools in the hamlet of Eastbury built. Early in 1862, at the request of the Bishop of Oxford, he left Lambourne for the vicarage of Great Marlow. During the five years since then a daily service morning and evening, and celebrations of the holy communion every Sunday and saint's day, have been carried on in the church at Marlow; a large and efficient choir has been established, chapel-schools have been built in two outlying hamlets, and in the town a free school has been built and a mistress provided, that the children of the poorest districts may not be without the means of education. Parochial organisation has been gradually developed, and at present, with a large staff of curates and district visitors, the parish is most efficiently worked. Away from Marlow, Dr. Milman is well known as an extempore preacher of no ordinary power. He has also from time to time given courses of lectures at the Theological College of Cuddesdon. His writings include a “Life of Tasso,” “Conversion of Pomerania,” and “Voices of the Harvest,” besides “The Love of the Atonement,” and other devotional compositions.

The portrait of Bishop Milman we have engraved is from a photograph by Messrs. Mayall, of Regent-street.

Bibliography

“The New Bishop of Calcutta.” Illustrated London News. (30 March 1867): 313. Hathi Trust Digital Library web version of a copy in The University of Michigan Library. Web. 9 January 2016.

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