{{short description|Royal Navy Admiral and colonial governor (1724–1805)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Admiral |name=Mark Milbanke |image= |caption= |birth_date={{birth-date|12 April 1724}} |death_date={{death-date and age|9 June 1805|12 April 1724}} |birth_place=Halnaby Hall, Darlington |death_place=London, England |nickname= |allegiance=United Kingdom |branch= Royal Navy |service_years=1736–1805 |rank=Admiral |unit= |commands=HMS ''Serpent''<br/>HMS ''Inverness''<br/>HMS ''Romney''<br/>HMS ''Guernsey''<br/>HMS ''Barfleur''<br/>HMS ''Princess Royal''<br/>HMS ''Namur''<br/>North Sea Fleet<br/>Plymouth Command<br/>Newfoundland Command<br/>Portsmouth Command |battles={{Tree list}} *War of the Austrian Succession **Battle of Cartagena de Indias *Seven Years' War **Action of 5 April 1757 *American Revolutionary War **Battle of Cape Spartel {{tree list/end}} |awards= |relations=Sir Ralph Milbanke, 4th Baronet (father) |other_work= |spouse=Mary Webber }} Admiral '''Mark Milbanke''' (12 April 1724 – 9 June 1805) was a British naval officer and colonial governor.
==Military career== Milbanke was born into an aristocratic Yorkshire family with naval connections, his father was Sir Ralph Milbanke, 4th Baronet. Mark Milbanke graduated from the Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth in 1740.<ref name=govt>[http://www.heritage.nf.ca/govhouse/governors/g30.html Biography at Government House ''The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador'']</ref> He was made Lieutenant in 1744<ref name=govt/> and in 1746 was given command of HMS ''Serpent''.<ref name=dcb>[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2558 Dictionary of Canadian Biography]</ref> He became Port Admiral at Plymouth in 1783.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=18689|title=Mark Milbanke|first=Roger|last=Morriss}}</ref>
In 1789, Milbanke was appointed governor of Newfoundland.<ref name=govt/> In the years when settlement was prohibited on the Island of Newfoundland, Milbanke did his best to enforce this prohibition.<ref name=govt/> He did so by demolishing buildings, and by limiting the number of Irish people immigrating to Newfoundland.<ref name=govt/> He also refused to allow the building of a Roman Catholic chapel at Ferryland.<ref name=govt/>
He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1799.<ref>[http://www.history.inportsmouth.co.uk/people/cinc-portsmouth.htm History in Portsmouth] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627145452/http://www.history.inportsmouth.co.uk/people/cinc-portsmouth.htm |date=27 June 2015 }}</ref>
Milbanke was promoted to admiral of the white in 1795.<ref name=govt/> In 1805 he fell over the banisters at his home and died from his injuries.<ref name=dcb/>
==Family== Milbanke married Mary Webber (died 1812); they had a son and two daughters. Ralph (died 1823) was a naval captain. Elizabeth Mary, the younger daughter, married William Huskisson.<ref name="ODNB"/> Harriet, the elder daughter, married Philemon Tilghman, son of James Tilghman.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tillman |first1=Stephen Frederick |title=Tilghman-Tillman family, 1225-1945 |date=1946 |publisher=Lithoprinted by Edwards Bros. |location=Ann Arbor, Mich. |page=88 |url=https://archive.org/details/tilghmantillmanf00till/page/88/mode/2up}}</ref>
== See also == * Governors of Newfoundland * List of people from Newfoundland and Labrador
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box | title=Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth | years=1783–1786 | before=Sir Molyneux Shuldham| after=Sir Thomas Graves}} |- {{s-off}} {{succession box|title=Commodore Governor of Newfoundland | before=John Elliott | after=Sir Richard King | years=1789–1791}} |- {{s-mil}} {{succession box | title=Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth | years=1799–1803 | before=Sir Peter Parker | after=Lord Gardner}} {{end}} {{NLLG}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Milbanke, Mark}} Category:1724 births Category:1805 deaths Category:Royal Navy admirals Category:Governors of Newfoundland Colony
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