Henry Hart Milman, an English author, born in London, Feb. 10, 1791, died there, Sept. 24, 18G8. He was the youngest son of Sir Francis Milman, physician to George III., and was educated at Eton and at Brasenose college, Oxford, where he obtained a fellowship. His literary career commenced in 1815, with the publication of "Fazio," a tragedy performed successfully at Covent Garden; and in 1817 he took orders and was presented to the vicarage of St. Mary's, Reading. In 1818 he published "Samor, Lord of the Bright City, an Heroic Poem," founded on passages in the legendary history of Britain, and in 1820 his most successful production in verse, " The Fall of Jerusalem," a dramatic poem. In the succeeding year he was appointed professor of poetry in the university of Oxford, and published three other dramatic poems, "The Martyr of An-tioch," "Belshazzar," and "Anne Boleyn." In 1826 he was appointed Bampton lecturer, and in the following year appeared his " Sermons at the Bampton Lecture," in 1829 his "History of the Jews" (3 vols. 18mo), published anonymously, and in 1840 a collected edition of his poetical works.

In the same year he produced one of his most elaborate works, a " History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire" (3 vols. 8vo), and in 1854-'5 a " History of Latin Christianity, including that of the Popes, to the Pontificate of Nicholas V." (6 vols. 8vo), designed as a continuation of the former, although it is a complete work. He prepared a sumptuously printed and illustrated edition of Horace (8vo, 1849), with a life of the poet and criticisms on his writings, an annotated edition of Gibbon's " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," preceded by a life of the historian, a " Memoir of Lord Macaulay," a "Life of John Keats," and translations of the "Agamemnon" of iEschy-lus, the " Bacchaa" of Euripides, and some of the minor Greek poets. In 1802 he revised and almost completely rewrote his "History of the Jews " (3 vols. 8vo). His later works are: "Hebrew Prophecy, a Sermon" (1865); " Annals of St. Paul's Cathedral " (1868); and "Savonarola, Erasmus, and other Essays" (1870). In 1866-7 a complete edition of his "Historical Works" was published (15 vols, post 8vo). In 1849 Milman was made dean of St. Paul's.