Alexander Milne (1742 - 1838) was an entrepenuer. Milne was born in Fochabers, Scotland. Known as 'Sandy' to his friends, he got into trouble with the local Duke for whom he worked as a footman by refusing to cut his long ginger hair, and was deported to America in 1790. Sandy set up a business in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flourished and grew. When he died in 1838 he was a very rich man, and left instructions for several institutions to be built, including Milne's Free School in his native town of Fochabers (better known as Milne's Institution).
The first issue of the Louisiana Gazette, published in 1804, lists slaves for sale by Alexander Milne.
Milne developed a town on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, since absorbed into the city of New Orleans, which was long known as Milneburg in his memory.
Milne was born in Scotland but raised in London at a small private school in Kilburn run by his father John Vine Milne.
Milne is most famous for his Pooh books, which feature a boy named Christopher Robin, after his son, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.
After Milne's death, the rights to the Pooh characters were sold by his widow, Daphne to the Walt Disney Company, which has made a number of Pooh cartoon movies, as well as a large amount of Pooh-related merchandise.
Alan AlexanderMilne was born in Hampstead, London on 18th January 1882.
In 1925 the Milnes moved to Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, East Sussex, which is on the outskirts of Ashdown Forest.
Milne and Shepard walked together through the forest, Shepard sketching Gills Lap, the bridge and all the other enchanted places, which were to appear in the books.
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