Frank Milner

Frank Milner CMG (7 November 1875 – 2 December 1944) was a notable New Zealand school principal and educationalist. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand on 7 November 1875.^[1]

Milner was educated at Nelson College from 1889 to 1892,^[2] and at Canterbury College, where he completed his BA in English and Latin in 1895, and his MA with first-class honours in language and literature in 1896.^[1]

He taught at Nelson College between 1897 and 1906, and applied unsuccessfully for the headmaster's position there in 1903.^[1] From 1906 until his death in 1944 Milner was the rector of Waitaki Boys' High School in Oamaru, where he was known as "The Man".^[1] In January 1907, he married Florence Violet George in Wellington.^[3]

In the 1925 New Year Honours Milner was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of his services to education in New Zealand,^[4] and in 1935 he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.^[5]

He was to stand in Oamaru for the National Party in the cancelled 1941 general election.^[1]

His son Ian Milner was later an Australian diplomat and civil servant, and then an academic at Charles University, Prague.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Lee, Gregory. "Frank Milner". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
^ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition
^ "Personal matters". Evening Post. 4 January 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
^ "No. 33007". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1925. p. 4.
^ "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 105. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
^ Intersecting Lines, the Memoirs of Ian Milner (Victoria University Press, 1993) edited and introduced by Vincent O'Sullivan

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[DNZB_Milner-1] Lee, Gregory. "Frank Milner". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

[NCOB-2] Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition

[3] "Personal matters". Evening Post. 4 January 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[4] "No. 33007". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1925. p. 4.

[5] "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 105. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[6] Intersecting Lines, the Memoirs of Ian Milner (Victoria University Press, 1993) edited and introduced by Vincent O'Sullivan

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