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Frank Milner

Frank Milner Шаблон:Post-nominals (7 November 1875 – 2 December 1944) was a notable New Zealand school principal and educationalist. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand on 7 November 1875.[1]

Milner was educated at Nelson College from 1889 to 1892,[2] and at Canterbury College, where he completed his BA in English and Latin in 1895, and his MA with first-class honours in language and literature in 1896.[1]

He taught at Nelson College between 1897 and 1906, and applied unsuccessfully for the headmaster's position there in 1903.[1] From 1906 until his death in 1944 Milner was the rector of Waitaki Boys' High School in Oamaru, where he was known as "The Man".[1] In January 1907, he married Florence Violet George in Wellington.[3]

In the 1925 New Year Honours Milner was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of his services to education in New Zealand,[4] and in 1935 he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[5]

He was to stand in Шаблон:NZ electorate link for the National Party in the cancelled 1941 general election.[1]

His son Ian Milner was later an Australian diplomat and civil servant, and then an academic at Charles University, Prague.[6]

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 Шаблон:DNZB
  2. Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition
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  4. Шаблон:London Gazette
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  6. Intersecting Lines, the Memoirs of Ian Milner (Victoria University Press, 1993) edited and introduced by Vincent O'Sullivan