Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician mb-code 42-36579880 the 'Outward Coat'

the 'Outward Coat'

With figures in Guildhall Yard

In the background there is a pawn shop and the Crown Tavern

or the Whisky Club singing a requiem to the manes of the persecuted and - Queen'

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician mb-code 42-36579880 the 'Outward Coat'Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician, c1890. Milnes (1809 1885) was a member of the literary set known as the Apostles Club. Elected a Conservative MP for Pontefract in 1837, he became a political associate of Palmerston, who raised him to the peerage in 1863. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.