28 Facts About Barnaby Miln

Barnaby Kemp Graham Miln was born on 6 August 1947 and is a British social activist and former magistrate.

Barnaby Miln was the first lay person to come out as gay in the General Synod of the Church of England and thereby the most publicly gay magistrate in England and Wales.

Barnaby Miln was educated at Mostyn House School, once a prestigious preparatory boarding school for 160 boys from 8 to 13 years, in Parkgate on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, where his end of term reports show that he was happy, an all-rounder and clever.

Barnaby Miln is a descendant of Robert Fortune, and as a plant variety historian, he has researched the more than two hundred garden plants he introduced to the United Kingdom from China.

Barnaby Miln has researched the almost two hundred varieties of new crop plants bred and introduced to United Kingdom agriculture by his family's business, Gartons Agricultural Plant Breeders plc.

Barnaby Miln chaired the steering group during the building of a new church, St Barnabas, Hereford, and chaired its committee from its dedication by the Bishop of Hereford on 9 December 1981 and its consecration on 16 July 1982 by the Bishop of Hereford in the presence of The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

Barnaby Miln was a governor of the Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School, Hereford, between 1983 and 1989 and was present in Hereford Cathedral when it joined the List of Woodard Schools.

Shortly after the court case of the man with AIDS, Barnaby Miln was in London attending his first group of sessions of the General Synod.

Barnaby Miln introduced himself to Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, and asked what the church was doing about AIDS.

Once the three-week-long Conference was under way the Archbishop of Canterbury asked Barnaby Miln to gather support for a last-minute resolution on homosexuality 'to hold the position reached in 1978' in the name of the Bishop of New York, Paul Moore.

For five years Barnaby Miln travelled extensively speaking to church leaders at the British Council of Churches, throughout the worldwide Anglican Communion, Pope John Paul II in Rome and at the World Council of Churches in Geneva and Canberra.

The Bishop of Gloucester and Barnaby Miln were invited to the inaugural one in Geneva.

Barnaby Miln married Elizabeth nee Barber at St Matthew's Church, Stretton in August 1971.

Barnaby Miln's four-sided pedestal memorial clock was placed in the Cowgate Nursery School Playground in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, in November 1928 and moved in 2008 to the lower level of Tron Square, Edinburgh, following the redevelopment of the Cowgate Nursery School.

In 1986 Barnaby Miln met Derek Pattinson, then secretary-general of the General Synod of the Church of England and chairman of the executive committee of SPCK, formerly the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.

Andrew Brown of the Independent reported that Barnaby Miln had an affair with a man named David O'Reilly.

O'Reilly introduced Barnaby Miln to drugs, and soon Barnaby Miln was a heavy user.

Barnaby Miln believed it was murder, but the Crown Prosecution Service declined to bring a case.

At a meeting the night before, in Church House Westminster, Barnaby Miln declared that he was gay to much applause from the Open Synod Group he was addressing.

In February 1990 Barnaby Miln demanded an emergency debate of the General Synod following the leaking of the Osborne report which claimed homosexuals were treated poorly by the church.

Barnaby Miln was a consultant at the World Council of Churches.

Barnaby Miln was not re-elected to the General Synod in October 1990.

Whilst on the General Synod Barnaby Miln was a trustee and later chairman of the Langley House Trust for ex-offenders and treasurer of the Churches Council on Alcohol and Drugs.

Barnaby Miln brought to the latter his experience as a licensing justice in Hereford.

Barnaby Miln told the undercover reporter that senior church figures, Westminster MPs, civil servants, and members of the royal household were amongst the clientele for his services and the monthly orgies he held.

Barnaby Miln was the feature of a BBC One television documentary Men for Hire broadcast on Tuesday 5 April 2005.

Barnaby Miln has been the Property Convener of St Vincent's Scottish Episcopal Chapel in Edinburgh's New Town since 2015.

Barnaby Miln was a member of the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church, one of the provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion between 2016 and 2023.