MILNER, ISAAC, a learned divine, brother of the preceding, was born at Leeds in 1751. He was educated at the grammar school of his native town, and subsequently at Queen's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1770. He attained to the honour of a senior wrangler in 1774, and gained a fellowship the following year. In 1785 he was appointed Jacksonian professor of experimental philosophy, received the degree of D.D. in 1788, became dean of Carlisle in 1791, and in 1798 was made Lucasian professor of mathematics. Milner was an intimate friend of Wilberforce, and in 1787 he accompanied him and Pitt to the continent. He died in 1820, after writing a continuation of his brother's Church History, besides Animadversions on Dr. Harvey's History of the Church of Christ.