MILBANCKE, Ralph (?c. 1670-1701), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb.

Milbancke, who owned property in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oxfordshire and Gateshead in Durham, was returned unopposed for Northallerton at a by-election in 1697, and again at the general election in 1698. He was classed as a member of the Country party in a comparative analysis of the old and new House, and was later that year listed as likely to oppose a standing army. He was, however, an inactive Member. Having been returned unopposed in the first 1701 election, he was included on a list of those MPs likely to support the Court in agreeing with the supply committee’s resolution to continue the ‘Great Mortgage’. On 30 Sept. 1701 Narcissus Luttrell* recorded that Milbancke was ‘dangerously ill’, and on 4 Oct. noted that Milbancke had died ‘some days since’. By his will he left £4,000 to his daughter, Dorothy. Borthwick Inst. York, wills, Prerog. Ct. Jan. 1705; Huntington Lib. Stowe 58(1), p. 18; Luttrell, Brief Relation, v. 94, 96.