MILNE-EDWARDS 



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MIUOSH OBRENOVICH 



H. Milne-Edwards, 

 French naturalist 



Milne-Edwards, HENRI (1800- 

 85). French naturalist. Born in 

 Bruges, Oct. 23, 1800, the son of an 

 Englishman, 

 he qualified as 

 a doctor, but 

 devoted himself 

 to science, es- 

 pecially zo- 

 ology of the 

 invertebrates. 

 After teaching 

 for some years 

 in the College 

 Henri IV at 

 Paris, he succeeded Cuvier in 

 the Academic des Sciences, and in 

 1841 became professor of entom- 

 ology and hi 1844 professor of 

 zoology and physiology at the 

 Museum of Natural History in the 

 Jardin des Plantes. He died July 

 29, 1885. 



Milner, ALFRED MILKER, IST 

 VISCOUNT (b. 1854). British admin- 

 istrator and statesman. Born of 

 English pa- 

 rents at Bonn, 

 March 23, 

 1854, he was 

 educated in 

 Germany, a t 

 King's College, 

 London, and 

 Balliol College, 

 Oxford, where 

 he had an ex- 



fh s ceptionally 



/f}s^tsi\^(s. brilliant 



career, ending 



^h a f e iio w . 



ship at New College. He became 

 a barrister, but for a time was on 

 the staff of The Pall Mall Gazette. 



Milner contested the Harrow 

 division of Middlesex in the Liberal 

 interest at the general election of 

 1885, but without success, and his 

 public career really began with the 

 post of private secretary to G. J. 

 Goschen. This led to his appoint- 

 ment as under-secretary for finance 

 in Egypt, 1889-92, and chairman 

 of the board of inland revenue, 

 1892-97. He was created K.C.B. 

 in 1895, and in 1897 was sent to 

 South Africa as governor of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and con- 

 ducted the negotiations with 

 Kruger before the South African 

 War. He remained at his post 

 during the struggle, took part in 

 the peace negotiations, and after- 

 wards was governor of the Trans- 

 vaal and Orange River Colonies 

 until 1905. 



Conscious possibly of the hos- 

 tility he had aroused in Great 

 Britain, Milner, who had been made 

 a baron in 1901 and a viscount in 

 1902, remained in retirement for 

 some years, although he emerged 

 to denounce the budget of 1909. 

 However, in 1916, his former oppo- 



nent, Lloyd George, chose him as 

 one of the members of the small 

 War Cabinet, and for two years 

 the two worked together closely in 

 planning the final victory of the 

 Allies. After the armistice Milner 

 was appointed secretary for war. 

 He was colonial secretary, 1919- 

 21, during which period he headed 

 a special mission to Egypt. 



Although possessed of high ad- 

 ministrative gifts, a certain reserve, 

 sometimes called hardness, pre- 

 vented Milner from ever becoming 

 a popular figure. He was accused 

 of being a bureaucrat of the Prus- 

 sian type, while with equal un- 

 reason he was regarded as opposed 

 to progress of all kinds. His 

 writings include England in Egypt, 

 1892. /See Egypt ; South Africa ; 

 consult also Milner and S. Africa, 

 E. B. Iwan-Muller, 1902; Lord 

 Milner's Work in S. Africa, 1902 ; 

 and Reconstruction of the New 

 Colonies under Lord Milner, W. B. 

 Worsfold, 1913. 



Milngavie. Town of Dumbar- 

 tonshire, Scotland. It stands on 

 Allander Water, 

 6 m. N.N.W. of 

 Glasgow on the 

 N.B. Rly. The 

 industries include 

 calico printing 

 and bleaching. 

 Pop. 4,500. Popu- 

 larly pronounced 

 Millguy. 



Milo. Famous athlete of ancient 

 times, belonging to Crotona, S. 

 Italy, He gained many victories at 



Milngavie arms 



Milnrow. Urban cQst. of Lan- 

 cashire. It is 2 m. from Rochdale, 

 with a station on the L. & Y. Rly. 

 John Collier, known as Tim Bob- 

 bin, the dialect poet, was a school- 

 master here. There are coal mines 

 in the neighbourhood. Pop. 8,600 



Milo OR MELOS. Island of Greece, 

 the most south-westerly of the 

 Cyclades (q.v.). It is 14 m. in 

 length by 8 m. wide, having an area 

 of 60 sq. m. Of volcanic origin, 

 it rises in Mt. St. Elias to 2,540 ft. 

 A long inlet opening on the 

 N.W. affords one of the best 

 natural harbours in the Levant. 

 The soil is fertile, yielding cereals ; 

 sulphur, gypsum, etc., are found. 

 Plaka, the capital, stands on 

 the N.E. shore of the inlet. Port 

 Milo is situated near the site of 

 ancient Melos. Here were the statue 

 of Poseidon, now in the Athens 

 Museum, the Asclepius, in the 

 British Museum, the Venus de 

 Milo, in the Louvre, Paris, and 

 other works of ancient art. In the 

 prehistoric settlements at Phylak- 

 opi, much early pottery and some 

 paintings were excavated. Milo 

 was colonised successively by the 

 Phoenicians and Dorians, and fell 

 to the Athenians in 416 B.C. The 

 Turks took possession of the island 

 in 1537, Pop. 5,000. Pron. Meelo. 



Milo. Sculpture by P. Fuget, re- 

 presenting the death oi the athlete 



Louvre, Parlt 



the Olympic and other games, and 

 is said on one occasion to have 

 carried a heifer on his shoulders 

 through the stadium at Olympia, 

 and eaten it in one day. In 511 

 B.C. he was general of the army 

 which defeated the Sybarites. It 

 is said that in his old age, while 

 endeavouring to rend a split 

 trunk, his hand was trapped, and 

 being unable to get away, he fell a 

 victim to wolves. Pron. Mylo. 



Milo, TITUS ANNTUS (d. 48 B.C.). 

 Roman politician. A member of 

 the aristocratic party, he was 

 largely responsible, as tribune of 

 the plebs, for securing the return of 

 Cicero from exile, 57 B.C. This 

 brought him into conflict with 

 Clodius. Both were in the habit of 

 going about Rome attended by 

 bands of armed gladiators, and the 

 two bands meeting on one occasion 

 on the Appian Way, Clodius was 

 killed, 52 B.C. Arraigned for the 

 murder, Milo was defended by 

 Cicero, but a tumult arose, Cicero 

 was intimidated and did not deliver 

 his speech, and Milo was con- 

 demned and went into exile. 

 Milo afterwards led a band of 

 insurgents in S. Italy and was 

 slain near 

 Thurii. 



M i 1 o s h 

 Obrenovich 

 (1780 - 1860). 

 Prince of Ser- 

 bia. Of pea- 

 sant birth, he 

 was employed 

 in the cattle 



L u y u" 8 "Mo* Obrenovich, 

 hali - brother, Serbian prince 



