Richard Milles

Richard Milles (c. 1735 – 14 September 1820) was an English Tory politician, landowner and horticulturalist who sat in the British House of Commons from 1761 to 1780, representing the constituency of Canterbury.

Milles was the son of Christopher Milles of Nackington, and his wife Mary Warner, daughter of Richard Warner of North Elmham Norfolk.

[2] He was educated at Westminster School and at St John's College, Cambridge.

[4] He was noted as a botanist and planted an orchard at his garden at North Elmham.

[2][6] Milles married on 9 October 1765, Mary Elizabeth Tanner, daughter of the Rev.

Portrait of Richard Milles by Pompeo Batoni [ 1 ]
Portrait of his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Milles, by Sir Joshua Reynolds , 1789, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art