English landowner, horticulturalist and Tory politician
Richard Milles (c. 1735 – 14 September 1820) was an English landowner, horticulturalist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1780.
He was noted as a botanist and planted an orchard at his garden at North Elmham.[4]
Milles was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury in 1761[5] and won that and two subsequent election by a comfortable majority, holding the seat to 1780, when he did not stand.[2][6]
Personal life
Milles married on 9 October 1765, Mary Elizabeth Tanner, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Tanner, DD, Prebendary of Canterbury. Together, they had their only daughter in 1767