Background
Milner was second son of John Milner and Mary, daughter of Gilbert Ramsden, born at Skircoat, in the parish of Halifax, and was baptised 10 February 1628.
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Milner was second son of John Milner and Mary, daughter of Gilbert Ramsden, born at Skircoat, in the parish of Halifax, and was baptised 10 February 1628.
He was educated at the Halifax grammar school and entered at Christ"s College, Cambridge, 21 June 1642. He probably left without a degree ahead of the parliamentary visitation of the university. Milner was probably with Lake at Oldham in 1651.
lieutenant has been inferred that he was schoolmaster at Chadderton appointed in August 1641.
Lake"s friend was preaching at Oldham as late as 1654. Milner is said to have subsequently returned to Halifax, and at the Restoration was given the curacy of Beeston in the parish of Halifax by Lake, who had then become vicar of Leeds.
In 1662 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at Cambridge by royal letters. His petition for his degree states that he had been deprived of a good benefice during the rebellion.
In the same year he was made minister of Saint John"s, Leeds, was inducted vicar of Leeds 4 August 1673, and elected prebendary of Ripon 29 March 1681.
At the Glorious Revolution of 1688 he joined the nonjurors, was deprived of all his preferments, and retired to Saint John"s College, Cambridge, where he lived in comparative ease. He died 16 February 1702, and was buried in the college chapel on 19 February.