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for the board of longitude, and two of his mathematical papers were presented to the Royal
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Milner was born on 11 January 1750 in
Mabgate, Leeds. He began his education at a grammar school in Leeds in 1756, but this ended in 1760 with the death of his father. He was apprenticed as a weaver, reading the classics when time permitted, until his elder brother,
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