Joshua Millner

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Joshua Millner (1908)
Joshua Millner (1908)

Sport shooting

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Olympic games
gold London 1908 Free rifle 1000 yards

Joshua Kearney Millner (born July 5, 1847 in Dublin , † November 16, 1931 there ) was a British sports shooter from Ireland .

successes

Joshua Millner took part in the 1908 Olympic Games in London at the age of 61 years in part, in which he took in three disciplines. With the free rifle over the distance of 1000 yards, he scored 98 out of a possible 100 points, the best result of the competition. Millner won the gold medal ahead of Kellogg Casey and Maurice Blood . In the running deer competition he finished ninth in a single shot and 15th in a double shot.

Millner came from a family that were successful wool merchants and producers. He later took over the company. From 1882 to 1887 he served as a lieutenant with the Finsbury Rifles in the Territorial Army . He then joined the Carlow Militia of the King's Royal Rifle Corps , which was dissolved in 1908. Millner had been her last commanding officer in the rank of colonel . In retirement, he turned to breeding the Irish Red Setter dog breed and wrote and published a book about it in 1924.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Free Rifle, 1,000 yards. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Running Target, Single Shot. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Running Target, Double Shot. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Millner, Joshua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millner, Joshua Kearney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British marksman
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1931
Place of death Dublin , Ireland