Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Finish:Single the wardens face a chilly

the wardens face a chilly start

'The City cuckolds & Court horned beasts comparing each other's beauty'

Jeremiah Kelly

bound in brown calf

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Finish:Single the wardens face a chillyRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician, c1890. Milnes (1809 1885) was a member of the literary set known as the Apostles Club. Elected a Conservative MP for Pontefract in 1837, he became a political associate of Palmerston, who raised him to the peerage in 1863. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.