Isaac Milner
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Isaac Milner (1750 – 1820), mathematician and inventor. President of Queens' College, Cambridge.
He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and was also a great supporter of the Abolitionists campaign against the slave trade. He steeled Wilberforce with his assurance before the 1789 Parliamentary debate "If you carry this point in your whole life, that life will be better spent than in being prime minister of many years.". [1]
| Preceded by Edward Waring |
Lucasian Professor at Cambridge University 1798–1820 |
Succeeded by Robert Woodhouse |
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