Henry Hart Milman

[2] In 1821 Milman was elected professor of poetry at Oxford; and in 1827 he delivered the Bampton lectures on The character and conduct of the Apostles considered as an evidence of Christianity.

Milman made his appearance as a dramatist with his tragedy Fazio (produced on the stage under the title of The Italian Wife).

In subsequent poetical works he was more successful, notably the Fall of Jerusalem (1820) and The Martyr of Antioch (1822, based on the life of Saint Margaret the Virgin), which was used as the basis for a "sacred musical drama" by Arthur Sullivan.

Milman also wrote "When our-heads are bowed with woe," and other hymns; a version of the Sanskrit episode of Nala and Damayanti;[5] and translations of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchae of Euripides.

His nephew, Robert Milman (1816–1876), was Bishop of Calcutta from 1867 until his death, and was the author of a Life of Torquato Tasso (1850).