13 Facts About Dick Milford

Theodore Richard Milford was an English clergyman, educator and philanthropist, who was involved in the founding of Oxfam.

Dick Milford was born at Yockleton Hall, Shropshire on 10 June 1895.

Dick Milford was eldest of the three children of Robert Theodore Milford, who was headmaster of the local preparatory school, and Elspeth Barter, the granddaughter of George Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury.

Dick Milford attended Clifton College, where curriculum included instruction in music as well as the customary classical education.

Dick Milford fought in Mesopotamia and had two periods of leave in India.

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Dick Milford had been involved with the Student Christian Movement at Oxford, a connection which took him back to India to teach first at Alwaye College, Travancore and then St John's College, Agra.

Dick Milford then returned to England to serve as local SCM secretary in Liverpool between 1924 and 1926.

Dick Milford returned to England in 1935 to serve as curate at All Hallows, Lombard Street, London.

Dick Milford left both positions to become Vicar of St Mary's, the Oxford University church.

Dick Milford found himself in conflict with the benchers on a number of issues, including the prosecution of Penguin Books related to the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover; Milford appeared in the defence.

Dick Milford was again chairman of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief from 1960 to 1965.

Dick Milford married Nancy Dickens Bourchier, daughter of the solicitor Ernest Hawksley and great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, in 1932.

Dick Milford died in 1936; the following year, he married Margaret Nowell Smith, daughter of Nowell Charles Smith, who had been headmaster of Sherborne School.