Henry Hart Milman

Born in London on February 10, 1791, Henry Hart Milman was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won distinction as a classicist and poet. He was ordained in the Church of England and built a reputation early on through poetry and verse dramas before turning more fully to historical and religious writing.

Milman is best known for works such as The History of the Jews, The History of Christianity, and History of Latin Christianity, books that aimed to present religious history in a broad, literary, and scholarly way for general readers. His writing sometimes stirred debate in his own day because it treated sacred history with an unusually historical and critical approach.

Alongside his writing, he held important church posts, becoming Dean of St Paul's in 1849. He remained a significant figure in Victorian intellectual and religious life until his death on September 24, 1868.