Career
In this work, he made Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK 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 Doctor of Literature by the University.
He was knighted in 1936. In summing up his work, The Times of London cited his “unfailing catholicity”, “nose for a good book”, and “rare sense of the practicable”.