Milton 24.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 19.1.1800 again
If Godwin deferentially placed the aristocrats first (Milton is followed by Landaff (qv) & Laval (qv)) this may have been a Lord Milton. But the only possibles I could find were Charles Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton DNB 1786-1857 who was probably too young to be at this dinner, and George Damer, d.1808 who had earlier been styled Lord Milton but in 1798 had succeeded to the Earldom of Dorchester. He had no sons and his heir would have been his brother Lionel but I'm not sure if a brother would use such a courtesy title. In fact Lionel died before his brother and in his will PCC 1807 was called the Honourable Lionel Damer. If Milton was not an aristocrat I have no probable suggestions as to who he was. John Milton of the Tower of London was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries 24.5.1792. Rev William Milton 1743-1824 father of Frances Trollope DNB 1779-1863 lived in Bristol from 1775 to 1801, his son Henry was a clerk in the War Ofiice from the 1800s.