---
title: "Joshua Milne"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Joshua Milne"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Carlisle Table of Mortality","William Sutton","Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","actuarial history"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


British actuary who built the Carlisle Table of Mortality (1815), the table that succeeded [[entity-richard-price|Richard Price]]'s Northampton table as the actuarial profession's standard reference. Matters to this vault's [[moc-early-life-assurance-and-the-age-rating-lag|early-life-assurance cluster]] as the second of two predecessor-table authors [[entity-william-sutton|William Sutton]] wrote a retrospective methodological critique of for the *Journal of the Institute of Actuaries* — Price in 1874, Milne in 1883 — placing Milne directly alongside Price in the same lineage of superseded standard mortality tables this vault already tracks.

Surfaced only as a named figure in Sutton's 1883 paper's title; no primary by or about Milne himself has been read yet.

## References

- [[claim-sutton-1883-carlisle-paper-mirrors-1874-northampton-paper]] — the paper naming him