Ralph Gordon Noel King Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace (1839-1906) was the author of Astarte. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Typescript catalogue of the library of Ralph Milbanke, at Ockham Park, Surrey and Wentworth House, Chelsea, by Helen Lascelles.
The catalogue was bought from Dawsons of Pall Mall in 1961.
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M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 43827-8.
Library catalogues
Milbanke | Ralph Gordon Noel King | 1839-1906 | 2nd Earl of Lovelace