Henry Ernest Milner (18 April 1845 – 10 March 1906) was an English civil engineer and landscape architect.He was the son of landscape architect Edward Milner and his wife, Elizabeth Mary Kelly, who had eleven children, of whom Henry Ernest was the eldest, born in Liverpool on 18 April 1845.
The couple had two children: a son, Barry Ernest, and a daughter, Winifred; she married Edward White who was trained in, and ultimately took over, his father-in-law's landscape architecture practice.
He remained in London until 1864 when he travelled to Russia on an assignment to carry out work on railways as an assistant engineer.
[7] Following the 1890 publication of his book, The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Milner was hired to plan several notable projects.
[1] These included the designs for the 250 acre grounds surrounding Sir Edward Watkin's tower at Wembley Park; although the gardens, which incorporated architectural features like a fountain, were completed, financial constraints and problems with the foundations of the tower meant only the first level was built and that was knocked down in 1907.