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Richard Milles (c. 1735 – 14 September 1820) was an English landowner, horticulturalist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1780. Early lifeMilles was the son of Christopher Milles of Nackington, and his wife Mary Warner, daughter of Richard Warner of North Elmham Norfolk.[2] He was educated at Westminster School and at St John's College, Cambridge. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1753.[3] He was a country gentleman with large estates.[2] Before 1761, he went on the Grand Tour of Europe.[5] CareerHe was noted as a botanist and planted an orchard at his garden at North Elmham.[4] Milles was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury in 1761 and won that and two subsequent election by a comfortable majority, holding the seat to 1780, when he did not stand.[2][5] Personal lifeMilles married on 9 October 1765, Mary Elizabeth Tanner, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Tanner, DD, Prebendary of Canterbury. Together, they had their only daughter in 1767
References1. ^Portrait of Richard Milles, National Gallery 2. ^1 2 3 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Taw7DVGrbRcC&pg=PA141 J. Brooke, Lewis Namier The House of Commons 1754–1790, Volume 3] 3. ^{{acad|id=FML753R|name=Milles, Richard}} 4. ^1 Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 1937, p501–07 5. ^{{Rayment-hc|c|2|date=March 2012}} 6. ^Metropolitan Museum of Art Hon Mrs Lewis Thomas Watson 7. ^Christies – Gainsborough Portrait of the Hon Mrs Watson External links
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