Barnaby Miln

Who is Barnaby Miln?

Barnaby Miln is a British social activist and former magistrate. He is best known as the originator of the AIDS Awareness ribbon, World AIDS day, and for promoting Fairtrade fortnight and the Jubilee 2000 human chain around the G8 leaders. He was the first lay person to come out as gay in the General Synod of the Church of England and thereby the most publicly gay magistrate in England and Wales.

The Miln family originates in Barry, a village near Carnoustie in Angus in Scotland and their genealogy back to 1614 is recorded in Burke's Landed Gentry. Miln's coat of arms was granted and matriculated at the Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms on 8 August 1967, and re-matriculated on 12 October 1998, after his father’s death.