Milligan, William

Church of Scotland; b. in Edinburgh Mar. 15, 1821; d. there Dec. 11, 1893. He was educated at St. Andrew’s University (M.A., 1839), where he studied divinity as he also did at Edinburgh. He was settled at Cameron, Fifeshire, in 1844 and at Kilconquhar, Fifeshire, in 1850. He became professor of divinity and Biblical criticism in the University of Aberdeen in 1860, and was chosen one of the revisors of the New Testament in 1870. Among his numerous works may be named: The Resurrection of our Lord (London, 1881); Revelation of St. John (1886); Elijah, his Life and Times (1887); Ascension and Heavenly Priesthood of our Lord (1892); Discussions on the Apocalypse (1893); and Resurrection of the Dead (Edinburgh, 1894). He also wrote commentaries on the Gospel of St. John (in connection with W. F. Moulton in Schaff’s commentary, New York, 1880) and the Apocalypse (Schaff’s commentary, 1883, and Expositor’s Bible, London, 1889).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: In Memoriam, by his wife, Aberdeen, 1894; DNB, xxxvi. 174-175.