Sir Humphrey Sumner
Milford
Male
England
1877-02-08
East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England
1952-11-06
The Acland Nursing Home, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Humphrey S. Milford was the brother of fellow lawn tennis player Robert T. Milford and the father of David S. Milford who, in addition to lawn tennis, also played hockey and rackets competitively.
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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Sumner_Milford
Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford was an English publisher and editor, who from 1913 to 1945 was publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press (OUP). In this work, he made the OUP a major world-wide publisher of noteworthy books, music, and educational material for the general public, complementing the scholarly work of the Clarendon Press in Oxford.
Milford himself edited volumes of works of Robert Browning, William Cowper, and Leigh Hunt; and was principal editor of The Oxford Book of Regency Verse (later The Oxford Book of Romantic Verse) and a moving force behind The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Upon publication of the final volume of The Oxford English Dictionary in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University. He was knighted in 1936.
His elder son by his first marriage was the composer Robin Milford (1903-1959); his younger son was the racket and hockey player David Milford (1905-1984). His sister, Violet Alice Milford, was the mother of the poet and scholar Anne Ridler (1912-2001). In summing up his work, The Times of London cited his “unfailing catholicity, nose for a good book, and rare sense of the practicable”.
1909 - 1924
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Edward (Teddy) Higgs 1 *
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Brame Hillyard 1 *
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John Porter Carleton
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Patrick Wheatley 1 *
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Henry Reginald Fussell 1 *
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Gordon Lowe 1 *
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George Alan Thomas 1 *
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Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford 1 *
Luis de Olivares
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Alfred Beamish 1 *
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Arthur M. Lovibond 1 *
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Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford 1 *
Jack Latham Hampton
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Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford 1 *
Arthur Davys Tuckey
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Peter Hicks 1 *
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Neville Willford 1 *
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