Frederick Milbank Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
Sir Frederick Milbank, Bt
Office:Member of Parliament for Richmond
Term Start:1885
Term End:1886
Predecessor:New creation
Successor:Sir George Elliot
Office1:Member of Parliament for North Riding of Yorkshire
Term Start1:1865
Term End1:1885
Alongside1:William Duncombe, Octavius Duncombe, Viscount Helmsley, Guy Dawnay
Successor1:Constituency abolished
Birth Name:Frederick Acclom Milbank
Death Place:Barningham, County Durham
Parents:Mark Milbank
Lady Augusta Vane
Children:4
Relations:William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland (grandfather)

Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Baronet (21 April 1820 – 28 April 1898), was a British Liberal Member of Parliament.

Early life

Milbank was born on 21 April 1820 in London. He was the son of Lady Augusta Vane and Mark Milbank, MP for Camelford and High Sheriff of Yorkshire.[1] Among his siblings were Mark William Vane Milbank (who married a daughter of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet),[2] and Henry John Milbank (who married a daughter of the 8th Baron Grey of Groby, and Lady Susan Osborne, a daughter of the 8th Duke of Leeds).[3]

His paternal grandparents were Dorothy (Wise) Milbank and William Milbank, who bought Thorp Perrow Hall, Snape Castle, and Snape village in 1798.[4] His maternal grandparents were William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland and Lady Catherine Powlett (a daughter of the 6th Duke of Bolton).[5]

Career

In 1842, Milbank inherited estates at Hart and Hartlepool in county Durham from his maternal grandfather, the 1st Duke of Cleveland.[6] He served as a Lieutenant in the 79th Highlanders.[2] As a Liberal,[7] Milbank was elected to the House of Commons for the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1865, a seat he held until 1885, and then represented Richmond until 1886. On 16 May 1882 he was created a Baronet, of Well in the County of York, and of Hart in the County of Durham.

Personal life

In 1844 Milbank married Alexina "Aline" Harriet Don (–1919),[8] daughter of Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet and the author Grace Jane Stein (a daughter of Edinburgh banker and distiller John Stein). They were parents of:[9]

Sir Frederick died in April 1898, aged 78, at Barningham Park, Barnard Castle, in Barningham, County Durham.[13] He was succeeded by his second son Powlett as his eldest son predeceased him without male issue.[14]

Extramarital relationship

Reportedly, Sir Frederick had a child, named Madeleine Augusta Crabb, out of wedlock with the stage actress (and artist's model to Dante Gabriel Rossetti) known as Ruth Herbert (Louisa Ruther Herbert Maynard). Madeleine married Brig.-Gen. Sir Conyers Surtees, MP for Gateshead, in 1887.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 192.
  2. 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.
  3. Book: Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland . 1847 . H. Colburn . 866 . 11 April 2024 . en.
  4. Book: Horsfall . Thomas . Notes on the Manor of Well and Snape in the North Riding of the County of York . 1912 . Whitehead . 83 . 11 April 2024 . en.
  5. Book: The Law Reports: And Cases in Lunacy and on Appeal Therefrom in the Court of Appeal. Chancery Division . 1893 . Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales . 80 . 11 April 2024 . en.
  6. Web site: Parishes: Hart Pages 254-263 A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3. . British History Online . Victoria County History, 1928 . 1 October 2023.
  7. News: THE DEATH OF SIR FREDERICK MILBANK . 6 May 2024 . The North Star . 29 Apr 1898 . 3 . en.
  8. Web site: Alexina Harriet Elizabeth (née Don), Lady Milbank (circa 1826-1919), Wife of Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Bt; daughter of Sir Alexander Don, 6th Bt . www.npg.org.uk . . 6 May 2024.
  9. Debrett′s Peerage and baronetage, 1903
  10. Web site: Alice Frederica (née Milbank), Lady Dale (1845-1902), Wife of Sir David Dale, 1st Bt; daughter of Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Bt . www.npg.org.uk . . 6 May 2024.
  11. Deaths . 26 November 1902 . 1 . 36935.
  12. Web site: Wilhelmina Louisa Milbank (1846-1903), Daughter of Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Bt . www.npg.org.uk . . 6 May 2024.
  13. News: DEATH OF SIR FREDERICK MILBANK . 6 May 2024 . . 29 Apr 1898 . 9 . en.
  14. Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  15. Book: Surtees . Virginia . The Actress and the Brewer's Wife: Two Victorian Vignettes . 1997 . Michael Russell . 978-0-85955-232-5 . 59, 171 . 6 May 2024 . en.