After securing a scholarship, Milne-Thomson joined Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1909 and received part I of the Mathematical Tripos in 1911.
His proposers were Bevan Baker, John Marshall, Edward Thomas Copson, and Herbert Turnbull.
[3] At the end of a long career Milne-Thomson quit academia in 1971 and went to live in Sevenoaks, Kent where he died at the age of 83.
In 1933 Milne-Thomson published his first book, The Calculus of Finite Differences which became a classic textbook and the original text was reprinted in 1951.
The Theoretical Hydrodynamics published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, appeared in 1938[5] and more material based on his own research was added in the subsequent editions of this classic book.