Alfred Milner
1854 – 1925 British colonial administrator, statesman
British colonial administrator who ran southern Africa, gathered the 'Kindergarten' of young officials, and built the Round Table network at the heart of Quigley's Anglo-American Establishment thesis.
- Religion
- Anglican; a fervent believer in the British imperial mission.
- Affiliations
- High Commissioner for Southern Africa; the Rhodes Trust; the Round Table movement; the War Cabinet.
Alfred Milner was High Commissioner for Southern Africa in the run-up to the Second Boer War, and gathered a group of talented young administrators, the Milner Kindergarten, who spread through British public life. As a trustee of Rhodes's estate he turned the secret-society idea into the Round Table movement and its journal. He is the central organizing figure of Carroll Quigley's contested account of a coordinated Anglo-American elite.
In the timeline
- 1897 Alfred Milner appointed High Commissioner for South Africa central figure
- 1897 Chamberlain and Milner drive toward war mentioned
- 1902 Rhodes dies and endows the Rhodes Scholarships mentioned
- 1902 Death of Rhodes and Milner's inheritance mentioned
- 1902 Rhodes Trust established mentioned
- 1902 Milner recruits his 'Kindergarten' mentioned
- 1902 Milner's 'Kindergarten' forms in South Africa mentioned