Edward H. Milligan

Edward H. Milligan

Edward Hyslop Milligan, the Quaker historian, is the author of "The Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry, 1775-1920", ["The Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry, 1775-1920", by Edward H Milligan, Sessions of York (2007) ISBN 978-1-85702-367-7.] , includes entries for some 2,800 people. He is usually, informally, known as "Ted Milligan".

He was born in 1922. Educated at Ackworth School and the University of Reading. He was the Librarian an Archivist of Meeting for Sufferings of Britain Yearly Meeting, responsible for the Library at Friends House, London for from 1957 to 1985 (25 years). He was succeeded by Malcolm J Thomas.

On his retirement, he was presented with a Festschrift: "A Quaker miscellany for Edward H. Milligan", edited by David Blamires, Jeremy Greenwood and Alex Kerr (1985) ["A Quaker miscellany for Edward H. Milligan", edited by David Blamires, Jeremy Greenwood and Alex Kerr, published by David Blamires (1985) ISBN 0-95101521-4] . This includes:
* "A bibliography of the writings of Edward H Milligan to 1984" by David Hall and Malcolm Thomas. ["Miscellany", pp.161-170.] The diversity of his interests and the erudition of his friends is shown by the contents of the "Miscellany":
* E. H. M. at Yearly Meeting 1984. Photograph by Roger Haworth, courtesy "The Friend"
* 'My! How you've grown!'”, by Chris Barber
* Joseph Sherwood, Quaker attorney and notary c.1734-73, by Melanie Barber
* Quakers observed in verse and prose, by David Blamires
* Cushions on every other bench: a basis for rapprochement among American Friends, by Tom Bodine
* The ramblings of a recording clerk, by Geoffrey Bowes
* Local variations in Quaker meeting houses' by David Butler
* Quakers and Muggletonians in seventeenth-century Ireland, by Kenneth L. Carroll
* Wounded healers: ministry and pastoral care in a broken world, by Jo Farrow
* Rather odd people, by Elfrida Vipont Foulds
* Quakers in the looking-glass of the stage, by Ormerod Greenwood
* English and Irish Quakers and Irish Home Rule 1886-93, by Howard F. Gregg
* Written epistles of London Yearly Meeting in the eighteenth century, by David J. Hall
* God at London Yearly Meeting 1900, by Hope Hewison
* Thomas Rickman in France, by Alex Kerr
* The essence of Friends House: a view from the centre, by Jon North
* Women in the Society of Friends, by Janet Scott
* The Committee on General Meetings 1875-83, by Malcolm J. Thomas
* A cartoon by Lesley Webster
* The 1966 statement on membership in the Religious Society of Friends: a memoir, by Arthur J. White
* 'We shall never thrive upon ignorance' (J.J.Gurney): the service of John Wilhelm Rowntree 1893-1905,by Roger C. Wilson
* Subscribers, Colophon, Contributors

Publications

* "Britannica on Quakerism" (1965) - reproducing the "Encyclopeadia Britannica" article.
* "The past is prologue : 100 years of Quaker overseas work 1868-1968". (1968).
* "My ancestors were Quakers : how can I find out more about them?", with Malcolm J. Thomas. Society of Genealogists "My ancestor" series, First published in 1983. Reprinted several times - current 1999.
* "So numerous a family : 200 years of Quaker education at Ackworth, 1779-1979", with Elfrida Vipont Foulds (1979).
* "Quakers & railways" (1992).
* "The Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry, 1775-1920" (2007).
*Pictorial guide to the Quaker tapestry, (1998).
* ODNB: Ted Milligan has contributed 18 articles to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography".

External links

* [http://www.quaker.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=143565 Audio clip: Talk by Edward H Milligan to the Friends Historical Society "Biography as the foundation of history" 14 February 2008.] MP3 file: 39.7mb - 42 Minutes. (accessed 22 February 2008).

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