Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a very important role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s
Milner c. 1906
Lord Milner's mission to Russia
Australian gunners on a duckboard track in Château Wood, near Hooge, at the Battle of Passchendale, 29 October 1917
The Imperial War Cabinet in 1917. Milner is seated, second from the left.
Milner's Kindergarten
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Milner's Kindergarten is the informal name of a group of Britons who served in the South African civil service under High Commissioner Alfred, Lord Milner, between the Second Boer War and the founding
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
…prospects. To aid him in his task, Milner recruited a team of gifted young lawyers and administrators, most of them Oxford graduates, who became known as "Milner's Kindergarten". Among his proteges were Peter Perry, Lionel Curtis, Patrick Duncan, Geoffrey Dawson and Hugh Wyndham, many of whom continued in South Africa under…
Photograph of Lord Milner in 1902