Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
(1809-1885), Poet, patron of literature and politician; MP for PontefractSitter in 14 portraits
While at Trinity College, Cambridge, Milnes joined the progressive Apostles Club, which included the poets Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Henry Hallam. Milnes entered Parliament as an MP in 1837 and was actively involved in issues of copyright and the establishment of juvenile reformatories. He was made a peer in 1863. His early poetry led many to regard him as one of the most promising writers of his generation, but he is better remembered as an influential member of literary society and as a patron of writers. He published the Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848), secured a pension for Tennyson and was an early champion of the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by George Richmond
chalk, circa 1844
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by Carlo Pellegrini
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 3 September 1870
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by John Watkins
albumen print, 1860s
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by Unknown photographer
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by Henry Joseph Whitlock
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865-1870
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1873
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by Richard James Lane, after Alfred, Count D'Orsay
lithograph with some hand-colouring, (1839)
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by Richard James Lane, published by John Mitchell, after Alfred, Count D'Orsay
lithograph with some hand-colouring, published 27 July 1839 (1839)
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by William Holl Jr, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, 1852 or after (circa 1844)
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by William Holl Jr, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, 1852 or after (circa 1844)
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
by William Holl Jr, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, 1852 or after (circa 1844)
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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton ('Statesmen No. 62.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 September 1870
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