MILNER, SIR Alfred, VISCOUNT MILNER, English administrator: b. Bonn, Germany, 23 March 1854. He studied in Germany, where his father had been instructor in English at the University of Tubingen, then at King's Col lege, London, and at Balliol, Oxford; was Fel low of New College, Oxford; was called to the bar in 1881, and after several years in journal ism, part of the time on the Pall Mall Gazette, became private secretary to Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1887. From 1889 to 1892 he was Under-Secretary of State for Finance in Egypt; in 1892 became chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and in 1897 was appointed to the double post of high com missioner for South Africa and governor of Cape Colony. In 1900 he became administrator of the Transvaal and Orange River colonies, of which he was made governor in 1901. He took a prominent part in all negotiations with the Boers before, during and after the war, and his conduct throughout was the subject of much controversy in Great Britain. After the passing
of a resolution in the House of Commons di rected against his policy on Chinese labor he resigned in December 1905. He has taken a prominent part in advocating the causes of im perial federation, tariff reform and compulsory national service. In December 1916 he became a member of the Inner War Cabinet in Lloyd George's National Ministry. He is a man of high culture and is the author of 'England in Egypt' (1892), and