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Rev. James Stillingfleet, M.A., late Rector of 

 Hotham, in this neighbourhood, were published 

 soon after his death. 



In continuing my account of those persons 

 who, not being natives of the town, have still 

 been invariably associated with it by name, I 

 come, with pleasure, to mention the Rev. 

 JOSEPH MILNER, M. A. This meritorious indivi- 

 dual, who was born of obscure parents, in 

 the neighbourhood of Leeds, on the 2nd Jan- 

 uary, 1744, removed to Hull in the year 1767, 

 on being appointed, by the Corporation of 

 the town, to the Mastership of the Grammar- 

 School. From that time until his death, which 

 took place on the 15th November, 1797, he con- 

 tinued to reside in Hull. Soon after he became 

 Master of the Grammar-School, he was chosen 

 afternoon Lecturer at the Holy-Trinity Church, 

 and on the decease of the Rev. Thomas Clarke, 

 D.D., in 1797, was elected Vicar of that Church, 

 which appointment he only survived a few 

 weeks. Of his published works, his " History 

 " of the Church of Christ, 1 ' now in a course of 

 continuation by the Rev. John Scott, M.A., is 

 the best known. Of the three volumes of this 

 work, which appeared before Mr. Milner's de- 

 cease, the first was published in 1 793. Two more 

 volumes were published after his death, by his 

 brother, the late Rev. Isaac Mi!ner,D.D.,F.R.S., 



