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]

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lee, Gregory. "Frank Milner". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
  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. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 33007. p. 4. 1 January 1925. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post CXIX (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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