John Herbert Stevenson MILLINER

1908 - 1969  (60 years)

• Name	John Herbert Stevenson MILLINER
  Birth	13 Dec 1908
  Christening	England
  Gender	Male
  Education	10 Aug 1928	Article in Jamaica Gleaner
  	Book prize awarded to J H S Milliner of Munro College by the Cambridge Local Examinations Committee.
  Education	17 Sep 1931	King's House, Kingston, Jamaica
  	The Jamaica Gleaner, 18 Sep 1931: "Mr J H S MILLINER IS RHODES SCHOLAR - Former Munro Boy Awarded Scholarship by Selection Committee Yesterday - The annual meeting of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee was held yesterday forenoon at King's House, commencing at 11 o'clock. There were present His Excellency the Governor, Sir Edward Stubbs, CGMG, chairman; His Honour Mr Justice HLC Brown, acting Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Roxburgh, Kt, CMG, Ven Archdeadon Simms, chairman of the Jamaica Schools Commission: Mr Leslei Tucker, acting Director of Education: Dr Erle Swaby, Mr TR Williams, former Rhodes Scholar, and Mr WH Mitchell, secretary of the Jamaica Schools Commission, who is also secretary of the Rhodes Commission. Mr John Herbert S Milliner of Munro College and Mr Cedric George Lindo of Jamaica College were the two candidates who were examined by the committee. The meeting lasted for close upon one hour, after which both candidates were called up and Mr Milliner was notified that he had been awarded the Scholarship. Mr Milliner who is about twenty years of age is a son of Mr Milliner, owner of Cambridge Estates in the Parish of Trelawny. He went to Munro College in January 1923 and 3 years later sat for and passed his Cambridge Junior Examination. In 1927 he again sat for the Junior Cambridge Examination coming first in the island. In 1928 he passed the Senior Cambridge and in July last sat for and passed the Higher School Certificate Examination. Mr Milliner is a good athlete and was a favourite among the staff and students of Munro College. He will be taking a course in engineering and will be leaving the island next year for Oxford.
  Education	1932	Brasenose College, Oxford
  	Educ. Munro College. Engineering 4th Cl. B.A.
  Event	17 Dec 1946	Article in Jamaica Gleaner
  	MR AND MRS J H S MILLINER AND SON. After a 14 year absence from his homeland, Mr J H S Milliner returned to the island yesterday morning from the United Kingdom in the Elders & Fyffes steamship Tetela. Back to take up an appointment with WISCo, Mr Milliner travelled out with his wife and their son Nigel (21). A retired Navy Officer, Mr Milliner was a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal British Navy, and saw active service throughout the global war, serving in various theatres. A son of Mr and Mrs H R Milliner, of Clark's Town, Trelawny, the returning Jamaican expressed his happiness to be home again.
  Event	08 Aug 1953	Kingston, Jamaica
  	Flew to Toronto with wife.
  Occupation	31 Oct 1967	Article in Jamaica Gleaner
  	Mr John Milliner, a former assistant general manager at Frome Sugar Estate in Westmoreland, arrived in Jamaica on board the SS Camito from the United Kingdom yesterday, to assume the position of general manager at Monymusk Sugar Estate. He was accompanied by Mrs Milliner. In addition to being general manager at Monymusk, Mr Milliner will also take up directorship on the board of the West Indies Sugar Company, to which position he was named at the last board meeting on October 6. Mr Milliner's appointment brings up to nine the membership strength of the WISCo board, six of which members are Jamaican nationals. A Rhodes scholar of the early 1930s, Mr Milliner served last in Jamaica as assistant general manager at Frome between 1959-61, and then was transferred to the Tate and Lyle head offices in London where he was group factory manager for the Tate and Lyle subsidiary companies in Jamaica, Trinidad and British Honduras. On the transfer of the boards' headquarters to Kingston and to Port of Spain respectively, he served as a technical adviser. Interviewed yesterday shortly after landing, Mr Milliner said that he was glad to be back home in Jamaica and was looking forward to tackling the job ahead of him at Monymusk. He added that, when he left Britain, the public debate was in progress on Britain's bid to join the European Common Market and the varying reception this bid was receiving from the members of the Market, France in particular. Mr Milliner said that highly influential circles in the UK felt certain that, if the British bid for entry does succeed, all the essential interests of the Commonwealth will be adequately safeguarded.
  Occupation	1946-1969	Jamaica, West Indies
  	Engineer, W.I. Sugar Co. Ltd.
  Death	5 Aug 1969
  		Death of John Milliner in London, Jamaica Gleaner, 6 Aug 1969.
  Notes	Won Rhodes Scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1932.
  Person ID	I1046	Gadd
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2008

  
  

  Father	Herbert Russell MILLINER,   b. 16 Dec 1878, Cambridge, Clark's Town, Trelawny, Jamaica d. 27 Nov 1964, New Adventure, Holland, Trelawny, Jamaica (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Annie Isabelle Augusta STEPHENSON,   b. CIR 1884   d. 28 Jul 1957, Trelawny, Jamaica (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	27 Aug 1902
  		Herbert & Isabelle MILLINER on wedding day
  Family ID	F341	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Betty Marion HORNE,   b. 19 Jan 1923   d. Jun 2001, Bristol Registration District (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	Q2 1942	Hampstead Registration District   [1]
  Event	25 Apr 1950	Kingston, Jamaica
  	Family departed on the SS Ariguani for the UK.
  Children	+ 1. Nigel J MILLINER + 2. David H MILLINER
  Family ID	F350	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2008

  
  

• Sources

  [S419] FreeBMD, 1a 1308.