Sir John Sydney Wardlaw-Milne KBE (7 May 1879 – 11 July 1967) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician and a first-class cricketer.

The son of a Scottish banker, Wardlaw-Milne spent the early part of his life in British India, where he became a prominent figure in Bombay civic society.

As an MP, he was a member of the Imperial Economic Committee and during the Second World War was a critic of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, notably attempting to intitate a vote of no confidence against him in June and July 1942.

[3] Milne became a director at the shipping agents Turner Morrison in 1907, which led him gaining prominence on the Bombay Chamber of Commerce.

He held the seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election, where his Labour opponent Louis Tolley overcame a 25% deficit.

[5] His prior experience in India served him well in parliament, with Wardlaw-Milne sitting on the Conservative Indian affairs committee from 1930 to 1935.

During the war years, he was the chair of the Conservative foreign affairs committee, where his focus again remained in the east, specifically on trade with China.

"[8]Gloucester was regarded as "a figure of fun" and "[t]he idea that he could be turned into a dominating warrior prince scuppered both his own and Wardlaw-Milne's reputations".

[8] Churchill's own assessment was that "the combination of a Supreme War Commander with almost unlimited powers and his association with a Royal Duke seemed to have some flavour of dictatorship about it".

Having been widowed in 1933, and having no children who could inherit his estate, he left £100,000 to the Government of Jersey to construct a leisure centre at Fort Regent in St Helier.