Sir Powlett Charles John Milbank, 2nd Baronet JP DL (1 May 1852 – 30 January 1918), was a British

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Early life

He was the second, but eldest surviving, son of Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Baronet and Alexina Harriet Elizabeth Don. His father was a Liberal MP for

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and

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who had been created a baronet, of Well in the

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, and of

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in the

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in 1882. His elder brother, William Harry Vane Milbank, predeceased their father without issue in 1892, although he was stepfather to the British painter Count Albert de Belleroche. His paternal grandparents were Mark Milbank, MP for

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, and Lady Augusta Vane (a daughter of the 1st

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). His maternal grandparents were Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet, MP for

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, and, his second wife, the former Grace Stein (a daughter of John Stein, MP for

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who was an Edinburgh banker and distiller). After his grandfather died, his grandmother married Lt.-Gen. Sir James Maxwell Wallace.Antonella Braida
Wallace , Grace Jane, Lady Wallace (1804–1878)
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 18 March 2017.

Career

Milbank was returned to Parliament for

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in 1895, a seat he held until 1900. He became Lord Lieutenant of the county in the same year. Upon the death of his father on 28 April 1898, he succeeded as second Baronet, of Well and Hart. He served as

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, Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire, and a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire.

Personal life

On 3 June 1875, Milbank married Edith Mary Green-Price (d. 1928), a daughter of Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st Baronet and Laura King (a daughter of Dr. Richard Henry King of

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). Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2684. * Aline Laura Milbank (–1962), who married Lt.-Col. Francis William Forester of the

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, son of William Henry Forester and Hon. Eleanor Fraser (a granddaughter of the 16th

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), in 1894. * Sybil May Milbank (–1930), who married Lt.-Col. Sir Murrough John Wilson, a son of Col. John Gerald Wilson of Cliffe Hall, in 1904. * Sir Frederick Richard Powlett Milbank, 3rd Baronet (1881–1964), who married his brother-in-law's sister, Harriet Anne Dorothy Wilson, also a daughter of Col. John Gerald Wilson, in 1904. * Gladys Mary Milbank (b. 1884), who married Col. Vivian Henry, son of Col. Francis Henry of the

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, in 1906. After his death in 1929, she married Reginald Akroyd, son of John Bathurst Akroyd, in 1931. He died in January 1918, aged 65. His widow, Lady Milbank, died on 1 March 1928.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, p. 781.

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1852 births 1918 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies Lord-lieutenants of Radnorshire UK MPs 1895–1900 {{Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub