Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Finish:Single The Royal Hospital Chelsea retirement

The Royal Hospital Chelsea retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers was designed by Christopher Wren and opened in 1692

Lady Emily Dungarvon

the wardens face a chilly start

'The City cuckolds & Court horned beasts comparing each other's beauty'

White ad vivum delin et sculpsit

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Finish:Single The Royal Hospital Chelsea retirementRichard 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.