The son of John Milbanke and grandson of the fifth baronet; in 1826 he succeeded his uncle, Sir Ralph (Milbanke) Noel.

REFERENCES TO Sir John Peniston Milbanke, seventh baronet:

Lady Melbourne to a relative of Eleanor Milbanke, [1800 c.] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)