MILNER, JOHN, a Roman Catholic divine, was born at London in 1752, and educated at the college of Douai. After being ordained in 1777, he came to Winchester, where he presided over a Roman Catholic congregation. He was much attached to the study of ecclesiastical antiquities, on which he published several works, and displayed so much skill and learning as to be admitted, in 1790, into the Royal Society of Antiquaries. Milner also engaged in several religious controversies among the Roman Catholic clergy; and published several works on such subjects. He was appointed, in 1803, vicar apostolic of the midland district, and bishop of Castabala. He died in 1826. Milner's principal publications are:—A Dissertation on the Modern Style of Altering Cathedrals; History, Civil and Ecclesiastical, and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester; Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England during the Middle Ages.
MILNTHORPE or MILLTHORPE, a market-town of England, county of Westmoreland, near the east bank of the estuary of the Kent, and on the Preston and Carlisle railway, 7 miles S.S.W. of Kendal. It has manufactures of sacking and twine, and some trade by means of small coasting vessels, which come up, by means of the tide, opposite the town. Market-day, Friday. Pop. (1851) 1534.