Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 'The Tiger Carries off Miao

'The Tiger Carries off Miao Shan'

'The Late Rain'

'Hercules and The Hydra'

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Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm 'The Tiger Carries off MiaoRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician, c1890. Milnes (1809 1885) was a member of the literary set known as the Apostles Club. Elected a Conservative MP for Pontefract in 1837, he became a political associate of Palmerston, who raised him to the peerage in 1863. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.