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Robert Milman (25 January 1816 - 15 February 1876) was an
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in the second half of the 19th century. He was born at Easton in Gordano, Somerset the third son of Sir William George Milman, 2nd Baronet, of Levaton in Devonshire and was educated as a day-scholar at
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. He entered
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where he graduated
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in 1838, and M.A and D.D. in 1867. In 1839 he was
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in the
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as a
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to the curacy of Winwick, Northamptonshire, and in 1840 was presented a
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in 1840 to the vicarage of Chaddleworth, Berkshire, by the dean and chapter of Westminster, on the nomination of his uncle, then canon of Westminster. There he had daily service and wrote a ''Life of Tasso'' and some smaller books. In 1851 he exchanged Chaddleworth for the larger living of Lambourn, also in Berkshire. He served as the
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of
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,
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from 1851 to 1862 and then as vicar of
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, Berkshire from 1862 to 1867. He was appointed as the Bishop of Calcutta in 1867 and moved there with his sister in March of that year. He had been ordained and consecrated to the
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at
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on the
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(2 February 1867), by
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,
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. His diocese, which at that date included the Central Provinces, the Punjaub on the west, and British Burma on the east, extended over nearly a million square miles. A fluent linguist, he learnt to speak in Bengali, Hindustani, Hindi, and several related dialects. His sister Maria and his curate's sister Angelina Margaret Hoare founded St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School. He caught a chill when travelling from Calcutta to Peshawur and died at Rawul Pindi in February 1876. He had never married.
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, Tuesday, 21 March 1876; pg. 10; Issue 28582; col A ''Court Circular''
He was the author of a number of publications: * ''Life of Tasso'', 2 volumes, 1848. * ''The Way through the Desert'', 1850. * ''Mediations of Confirmation'' (a
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), 3 editions. * ''Love of the Atonement'', 2 editions.


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* 1816 births 1876 deaths People from Somerset People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Anglican bishops of Calcutta Younger sons of baronets {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub