George Milne, 1st Baron Milne

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Field Marshal George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne, GCB, GCMG, DSO (November 5, 1866 – March 23, 1948), was a British military commander who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1926 to 1933.

The son of George Milne of Aberdeen, Milne served in the Nile Expedition in 1898 and in the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. During the First World War he served on the General Staff and commanded the Salonika Army. After the war Milne was Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1926 to 1933, and was promoted to Field Marshal in 1928. He was also Constable of The Tower of London from 1933 to 1938. In 1933 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milne, of Salonika and of Rubislaw in the County of Aberdeen.

Lord Milne married Claire Marjoribanks, daughter of Sir John Nisbet Maitland, 5th Baronet, in 1905. He died in March, 1948, aged 81, and was succeeded in the Barony by his son George Douglass Milne.

Military Offices
Preceded by The Earl of Cavan	Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1926–1933	Succeeded by Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd
Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Methuen	Constable of the Tower of London 1933–1938	Succeeded by Sir Claude William Jacob
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Milne 1933–1948	Succeeded by George Douglass Milne