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Henry Hart Milman
1791–1868
Remembered for blending scholarship with storytelling, this 19th-century English writer was both a major churchman and a widely read historian. His books on early Christianity and the Jews helped bring religious history to a broad Victorian audience.
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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems
by Henry Hart Milman
Life of Thomas à Becket
by Henry Hart Milman
About the author
Born in London in 1791, Henry Hart Milman was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he built a strong academic reputation. He was ordained in the Church of England and went on to hold important posts including canon of Westminster and, from 1849, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.
Milman also became well known as an author. Early in his career he published poetic dramas such as Fazio and The Fall of Jerusalem, but he is best remembered for his historical writing, especially History of the Jews and History of Latin Christianity. His work stood out for trying to treat religious history with the tools of a historian as well as the concerns of a churchman.
He died in 1868, leaving behind a reputation for serious learning, clear prose, and a willingness to handle difficult religious subjects in a way that reached general readers.