Alexander van Millingen DD (1840–1915) was ascholar in the field ofByzantine architecture, and a professor of history atRobert College,Istanbul between 1879 and 1915.[1][2] His works are nowpublic domain in manyjurisdictions.
He was born inConstantinople the third son of DrJulius Michael Millingen, court physician to the Sultan, and his wife Zafira Ralli. He was educated at the Protestant College on the island ofMalta and then at Blair Lodge Academy atPolmont in central Scotland. He then took a general degree at theUniversity of Edinburgh graduating with a BA in 1861 and an MA in 1862. He then studied divinity atNew College, Edinburgh qualifying in 1866. He was then licensed by the Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland atDunkeld.[3]
Having a clear wanderlust he was ordained at the Scottish Church inGenoa in north Italy in 1868. He stayed one year before beingtranslated toPera on the outskirts of Constantinople. He was appointed Professor of English Literature at Robert's College in the city in 1878.
He died at Jervis Wood inTunbridge Wells inKent on 7 September 1915.[4]
He married twice in later life. In July 1879 he married Antoinette Cora Welch, widow of Truman Thomson, ofNewhaven, Connecticut. She died at sea in November 1892. In September 1895 he married Frances Elizabeth Hope Mackenzie atSt Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh. She was the daughter of Henry Somerset Mackenzie (b.1870), a judge in theEast India Company. Thirty years his junior she lived at 16 Moray Place on theMoray Estate at the time of the marriage. She died in 1929 inBarnet, London. They had three sons.
His sister wasEvelina van Millingen, later the Countess Pisani.[5]
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