He was entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, but left without graduating, and acquired the degree of doctor of medicine abroad.
[1] In 1733 Milward was a doctor of medicine, living in London at Queen's Square, Ormond Street; he later moved to Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
His major work was his essay on Alexander Trallianus, a Greek physician of the sixth century.
Another project was in his Letter to Learned Men: a complete history of British writers on medicine and surgery.
[1] His published works were:[1] Milward also edited Jacobi Drakei Orationes tres de febre intermittente, London, 1742.