Edward H. Milligan

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rdf:langString Edward Hyslop Milligan (27 March 1922 – 26 July 2020), also known as Ted Milligan, was a Quaker historian and the former librarian at Friends House, London. He was the author of The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920, which includes entries for some 2,800 people. He received the 2009 Besterman/McColvin Award for this work and an Honorary degree from Lancaster University The ‘’Biographical Dictionary’’ was reviewed in ‘’Archives’’, ‘’The Friend’’, ‘’Friends Quarterly’’, ‘’Quaker Studies’’, ‘’Quaker History’’,and ‘’The Journal of the Friends Historical Society’’. Educated at Ackworth School and the University of Reading, he was the Librarian and Archivist of Meeting for Sufferings of Britain Yearly Meeting, responsible for the Library at Friends House, London for 25 years from 1957 to 1985. He was succeeded by Malcolm J Thomas. On his retirement, he was presented with a Festschrift: A Quaker miscellany for Edward H. Milligan, edited by , and (1985). This includes: * "A bibliography of the writings of Edward H Milligan to 1984" by David Hall and Malcolm Thomas. The diversity of his interests and the erudition of his friends is shown by the contents of the Miscellany: * E. H. M. at Yearly Meeting 1984. Photograph by , courtesy The Friend * 'My! How you've grown!'", by Chris Barber * Joseph Sherwood, Quaker attorney and notary c.1734-73, by * Quakers observed in verse and prose, by David Blamires * Cushions on every other bench: a basis for rapprochement among American Friends, by * The ramblings of a recording clerk, by Geoffrey Bowes * Local variations in Quaker meeting houses' by * Quakers and Muggletonians in seventeenth-century Ireland, by * Wounded healers: ministry and pastoral care in a broken world, by * Rather odd people, by Elfrida Vipont Foulds * Quakers in the looking-glass of the stage, by * English and Irish Quakers and Irish Home Rule 1886-93, by * Written epistles of London Yearly Meeting in the eighteenth century, by David J. Hall * God at London Yearly Meeting 1900, by * Thomas Rickman in France, by Alex Kerr * The essence of Friends House: a view from the centre, by * Women in the Society of Friends, by * The Committee on General Meetings 1875-83, by * A cartoon by * The 1966 statement on membership in the Religious Society of Friends: a memoir, by * 'We shall never thrive upon ignorance' (J.J.Gurney): the service of John Wilhelm Rowntree 1893-1905,by Roger C. Wilson * Subscribers, Colophon, Contributors