page_title: David Milne (Royal Navy officer)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: David Milne (Royal Navy officer) / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Admiral David Milne portrait from The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present, 1897
context_page_description: Admiral Sir David Milne of Milne Graden GCB FRSE RN was a Scottish Royal Navy admiral.
context_section_description: In 1799 he bought the house and grounds of Inveresk Gate in Inveresk, where his descendants continued to live until the 1940s.
  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.
caption: Admiral Sir David Milne
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