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Joshua Milne
Joshua Milne (1776–1851), was an English actuary. Life He was appointed actuary to the Sun Life Assurance Society on 15 June 1810, and reconstructed the life tables then in use. He gave evidence before the select committee on the laws respecting friendly societies (1825 and 1827). By 1839 Milne had lost interest in the values of life contingencies, and turned to natural history; he is said to have possessed one of the best botanical libraries in London. He resigned his position in the Sun Life Office on 19 December 1843, and died at Upper Clapton on 4 January 1851. He was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. Actuarial works When Milne entered the field, life tables were based on the data taken by Richard Price from the burial registers (1735–80) of All Saints' Church, Northampton. Milne took as the basis of his calculations the bills of mortality from Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle, which had been prepared by John Heysham. After a long correspondence (12 September 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milne - A Treatise On The Valuation Of Annuities, 1825 - 271
Milne may refer to: ;People with the surname Milne *Milne (surname) ;Places *Milne Bay, large bay in Milne Bay Province *Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea *Milne Inlet, Nunavut, Canada *Milne Land, large island in eastern Greenland *Milne Townsite, an abandoned subdivision of Temagami, Ontario *Milne (crater), a large lunar crater in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon ;Other uses *Battle of Milne Bay, battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II *HMS Milne, HMS ''Milne'', the name of two ships of the Royal Navy *Milne model, a special-relativistic cosmological model proposed by Edward Arthur Milne See also *Miln *Milnes *Mylne {{Disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
