David Milne

Admiral Sir David Milne GCB FRSE (May 1763 – 5 May 1845) was a Royal Navy officer.

Life Milne was born in Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, the son of Susan Vernor and David Milne, an Edinburgh merchant.

He entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1779. He served in the West Indies from 1779 to 1783, seeing action in the Caribbean during the American War of Independence and in Lord Howe's final relief of the French and Spanish siege of Gibraltar in 1782.

He served as second-in-command of the fleet sent to bombard Algiers in 1816. In 1825 he became a Vice-Admiral. He also had a house at 10 York Place in Edinburgh's New Town in the 1830s.

n 16 April 1804, he was married to Grace Purves, eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Purves, 5th Baronet, of Purves, by his second wife Mary Home, daughter of Sir James Home, 3rd Baronet, of Coldingham. Their children included advocate and geologist David Milne-Home and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet. His wife died at Bordeaux, in France, on 4 October 1814, where she had gone for the recovery of her health. The admiral brought her body back to Scotland, and she was buried at Inveresk in East Lothian on 8 February 1815.

On 28 November 1819 he married for a second time, to Agnes Stephen.

Milne Land

Milne Land, in East Greenland, was named after him by Captain William Scoresby.

The island can be found 70.87 N, 25.42 W, sits in the large fjord Scoresby Sund and covers an area of with a highest point of .