John Milton
1820–80
Accountant. Attended King’s College, London. Clerk at the War Office from 1840; assistant accountant general, 1860; accountant general of the Army, 1871. Commissioner of income tax, 1871–5. Nephew of Fanny Trollope (ODNB), and reader of manuscripts for the John Murray publishing house. Knighted, 1878.
Source
A. Fraser 1996, p. 16.
Bibliography
Fraser, Angus. 1996. A publishing house and its readers, 1841–1880: the Murrays and the Miltons. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 90: 4–47.
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