Alfred Viscount Milner

In 1903 EG , bored with her marriage, fell for Lord Milner , an imperialist politician who had been the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and a civil servant in Egypt.

Despite RD's admiration for Cecil Rhodes , Alfred Milner , and Leander Starr Jameson , he also liked and respected the explorer Mary Kingsley , whose political views were nothing like this own. In...

At the wedding were Robert Browning , the distinguished soldier and colonial Indian administrator Sir Lewis Pelly , and suffragist Louisa, Lady Goldsmid . The bridegroom's best man was imperial statesman Lord Milner , one...

She was the liaison between the ministry and the Women's Land Army , Women's Legion , Voluntary Aid Detachment and others. In her practice as well as in memoranda to Lord Milner , the Secretary...

Always an admirer of the administrators, the soldiers, and their women who made the empire function, Kipling became increasingly imperialistic and nationalistic in the second part of his life. In South Africa, he admired...

The cloth cover features embossed coloured illustrations: on the front a frowning man wears a huge green turban; on the spine an open palm receives a coin. An opening quotation from the colonial administrator Lord Milner

In February 1920 EG went to Egypt for a second time. There she enjoyed the company of Lord Milner and attended a number of royal balls and extravagant parties. Four weeks later she went...