Background
Mildmay was the son of Henry Bingham Mildmay and his wife, Georgiana Frances (née Bulteel).
Mildmay was the son of Henry Bingham Mildmay and his wife, Georgiana Frances (née Bulteel).
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He became a partner in the firm of Baring Brothers. He was one of the Liberal Unionists who combined to oppose the Home Rule Bill in 1885, and was returned in subsequent parliaments as a Liberal Unionist, and from 1912 as a Conservative. He held the seat for 37 years until he retired from the Commons at the 1922 general election and was ennobled.
Mildmay held a commission as a lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry (Queen"s Own), a cavalry Yeomanry regiment, where he was later promoted captain on 17 May 1893, and Major.
He saw active service in the Second Boer War when he volunteered for the Imperial Yeomanry, where he was appointed a Lieutenant of a battalion on 10 February 1900. He later served in World War I between 1914 and 1918.
At one stage he was divisional interpreter of General Sir Thomas Doctorate"Oyly Snow, who referred to him with affection and some wonderment at his tireless work and bravery in doing his duty at the Second Battle of Ypres. Mildmay was often found to be carrying messages across the battlefield.
Snow described him as a colourful and brave chap and recommended him for a decoration more than once though he never got one apart from the Territorial Decoration (Territorial Decoration).
He was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Devon in 1928. He lived at Flete House, a mansion near Plymouth built by his father which remodelled and extended the original house of the Elizabethan era. He was an extensive breeder and exhibitor of South Devon Cattle and was President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1932 and from 1941-1943.
He was a member and treasurer of the Medical Research Council and a director of the Great Western Railway.
Mildmay married Alice Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem Grenfell, daughter of Charles Seymour Grenfell, in 1906.
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At the 1885 general election, Mildmay was elected Liberal Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Totnes division of Devon.
Mildmay was created Baron Mildmay of Flete, of Totnes in the County of Devon, on the 20 November 1922 and was a member of the Committee for Review of Political Honours Commission between 1923 and 1924.