Frank Milner

{{Short description|New Zealand school principal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2015}} thumb|right|Frank Milner '''Frank Milner''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CMG|size=100%}} (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.<ref name="DNZB Milner">{{DNZB|title=Frank Milner|first= Gregory|last= Lee|id=3m55|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref>

Milner was educated at Nelson College from 1889 to 1892,<ref name="NCOB">''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition</ref> 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.<ref name="DNZB Milner"/>

He taught at Nelson College between 1897 and 1906, and applied unsuccessfully for the headmaster's position there in 1903.<ref name="DNZB Milner"/> 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".<ref name="DNZB Milner"/> In January 1907, he married Florence Violet George in Wellington.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19070104.2.28 | title=Personal matters | date=4 January 1907 | work=Evening Post | accessdate=22 April 2015 | page=5}}</ref>

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,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33007 |date=1 January 1925 |page=4 |supp=y }}</ref> and in 1935 he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | volume=CXIX | issue=105 | newspaper=Evening Post | accessdate=22 April 2015 | page=4}}</ref>

He was to stand in {{NZ electorate link|Oamaru}} for the National Party in the cancelled 1941 general election.<ref name="DNZB Milner"/>

His son Ian Milner was later an Australian diplomat and civil servant, and then an academic at Charles University, Prague.<ref>''Intersecting Lines, the Memoirs of Ian Milner'' (Victoria University Press, 1993) edited and introduced by Vincent O'Sullivan</ref>

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