Duff (1993) p.4 describes Milton as spending ‘most of his life as a church-worker in East London. He was a general entomologist who travelled quite widely in the Home Counties and also received specimens from Wellington, Somerset, to where he later moved, probably on his retirement. For some years he was an honorary member of the entomological section of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society and left his collection to Taunton Museum. This contains specimens collected in or near Castle Cary and Wellington supposedly between 1908 and 1915 (some are certainly older than that), but at least the Castle Cary material may consist of duplicates received from MacMillan. A number of Milton’s records purporting to be from ‘Castle Cary’ are of coastal species...’ Milton’s name appears on Coleoptera in the Hall collection at Oldham (information from Simon Hayhow). There is a brief obituary in Proc. Som. Arch. Nat. Hist. Soc., 67, 1922, pp.lvii-lviii. (MD 2/04)
Dates
d.1921