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David Milne-Home of Milne Graden FRSE FGS PGSE LLD (1805–1890) was a Scottish advocate, geologist and meteorologist.

From 1874 to 1889 he served as president of the Edinburgh Geological Society He was born David Milne in Inveresk east of Edinburgh on 22 January 1805 the son of Grace (née Purves) and Admiral Sir David Milne of Milne-Graden FRSE.

[1] Milne was the junior defence counsel for the notorious grave-robber William Burke,[2] and later served as Advocate-Depute for the Crown Office.

[4] It was Milne who coined the word "seismometer" in 1841, to describe an instrument designed by James David Forbes.

[5] From 1876 until 1889 he led Berwickshire County Council during which period (in 1881) he organised for the relief of the families of the numerous fishermen lost in the Eyemouth Disaster.