Christopher Sclater Millard
| Christopher Sclater Millard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 7, 1872 Basingstoke |
| Died | November 21, 1927 (aged 55) --> Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth |
| Resting place | St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Bradfield College |
| Alma mater | St Mary's Basingstoke, Keble College Oxford |
| Subject | Oscar Wilde |
| Relatives | Dr James Elwin Millard, Dora Frances Sclater |
Christopher Sclater Millard (1872–1927) was the author of the first bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde as well as several books on Wilde. Millard's bibliography was instrumental in enabling Wilde's literary executor, Robert Baldwin Ross to establish copyright on behalf of his estate.
Millard was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, on 7 November 1872. He was the second son of Dr James Elwin Millard, an Anglican clergyman and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dora Frances Sclater.
He was educated at Bradfield College and St Mary's Basingstoke before matriculating at Keble College, Oxford. At Keble Millard read theology in accordance with his father's ambition that he follow him into the Church. He became a committed Jacobite during his time at university. He moved on to Salisbury Theological College but then converted to Roman Catholicism.
After graduating, Millard taught at Ladycross Preparatory School, Bournemouth and then at his own school – a Catholic establishment in Woodford Wells, Essex, which he left during 1904 for reasons that remain obscure. However he continued working as a tutor first in Wadhurst in Sussex and then at Iffley near Oxford. At the same time he began writing articles on Jacobitism and developing his interest in socialism and the Labour Party.
In April 1906 Millard was arrested at Iffley and charged with two counts of gross indecency under the 1885 Labouchere Amendment to the Criminal Law Act which criminalised all sexual acts between men. He pleaded guilty to avoid a third more serious charge of sodomy, which carried a maximum penalty of ten years penal servitude, and was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour.
After his release Millard went to live with his brother, the Rev. Elwin Millard, at St Edmund's vicarage in Forest Gate, East London and Robert Ross helped him obtain a position at the Burlington Magazine edited by More Adey and Roger Fry. Shortly afterwards he met Charles Scott Moncrieff, later the translator of Proust, then a pupil at Winchester College, who became a lifelong friend. Millard was unhappy in England and spent several months during 1907 in France, though he then returned to London where he spent the rest of his life.
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