Sir Powlett Charles John Milbank, 2nd Baronet JP DL (1 May 1852 – 30 January 1918), was a British Conservative Member of Parliament .
Early life
He was the second, but eldest surviving, son of Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Baronet and Alexina Harriet Elizabeth Don.[ 1] His father was a Liberal MP for North Riding of Yorkshire and Richmond who had been created a baronet, of Well in the County of York , and of Hart in the County of Durham in 1882.[ 2] His elder brother, William Harry Vane Milbank, predeceased their father without issue in 1892, although he was stepfather to the British painter Count Albert de Belleroche .[ 3]
His paternal grandparents were Mark Milbank , MP for Camelford , and Lady Augusta Vane (a daughter of the 1st Duke of Cleveland ). His maternal grandparents were Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet , MP for Roxburghshire , and, his second wife, the former Grace Stein (a daughter of John Stein , MP for Bletchingley who was an Edinburgh banker and distiller). After his grandfather died, his grandmother married Lt.-Gen. Sir James Maxwell Wallace .[ 4]
Career
Milbank was returned to Parliament for Radnorshire in 1895, a seat he held until 1900. He became Lord Lieutenant of the county in the same year.[ 5]
Upon the death of his father on 28 April 1898, he succeeded as second Baronet, of Well and Hart. He served as Lord-Lieutenant of Radnorshire , Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire, and a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire.[ 6]
Personal life
On 3 June 1875, Milbank married Edith Mary Green-Price (d. 1928), a daughter of Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st Baronet and Laura King (a daughter of Dr. Richard Henry King of Mortlake ). Together, they were the parents of:[ 1]
Aline Laura Milbank (c. 1876 –1962), who married Lt.-Col. Francis William Forester of the West Somerset Yeomanry , son of William Henry Forester and Hon. Eleanor Fraser (a granddaughter of the 16th Lord Saltoun ), in 1894.[ 1]
Sybil May Milbank (c. 1880 –1930), who married Lt.-Col. Sir Murrough John Wilson , a son of Col. John Gerald Wilson of Cliffe Hall , in 1904.[ 1]
Sir Frederick Richard Powlett Milbank, 3rd Baronet (1881–1964), who married his brother-in-law's sister, Harriet Anne Dorothy Wilson, also a daughter of Col. John Gerald Wilson, in 1904.[ 1]
Gladys Mary Milbank (b. 1884), who married Col. Vivian Henry, son of Col. Francis Henry of the Royal Fusiliers , in 1906. After his death in 1929, she married Reginald Akroyd, son of John Bathurst Akroyd, in 1931.[ 1]
He died in January 1918, aged 65. His widow, Lady Milbank, died on 1 March 1928.[ 6]
References
^ a b c d e f Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware : Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2684.
^ "No. 25106" . The London Gazette . 12 May 1882. p. 2221.
^ "Albert de Belleroche" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 March 2016 .
^ Antonella Braida, Wallace , Grace Jane, Lady Wallace (1804–1878) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 18 March 2017.
^ Joseph Whitaker, ed. (1913). Whitaker's Almanack . Whitaker's Almanack. p. 847.
^ a b Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, p. 781.
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