Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Finish:Single or a version of it

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bound in brown calf

30th August 1954

The Royal Hospital Chelsea retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers was designed by Christopher Wren and opened in 1692

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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Finish:Single or a version of itRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician, c1890. Milnes (1809 1885) was a member of the literary set known as the Apostles Club. Elected a Conservative MP for Pontefract in 1837, he became a political associate of Palmerston, who raised him to the peerage in 1863. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.