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

who helped smuggle them into the back of the Hippodrome

bound in brown calf

Bedford 6cwt utility wagon

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.