In his work, he made OUP a major worldwide publisher of noteworthy books, music, and educational material for the general public, complementing the scholarly work of the
Clarendon Press in Oxford. Milford himself edited volumes of works of
Robert Browning,
William Cowper, and
Leigh Hunt; and was principal editor of
The Oxford Book of Regency Verse (later
The Oxford Book of Romantic Verse) and a moving force behind the
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Upon publication of the final volume of the
Oxford English Dictionary in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the university. He was knighted in 1936. His elder son by his first marriage was the composer
Robin Milford (1903–1959); his younger son was the racket and hockey player David Milford (1905–1984). His sister Violet Alice Milford was the mother of the poet and scholar
Anne Ridler (1912–2001). In summing up his work,
The Times of London cited his "unfailing catholicity", "nose for a good book", and "rare sense of the practicable". ==References==