![]() ![]() While depressed, Milligan wrote serious poetry. In December 2007 it was reported that, according to OFSTED, it is amongst the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK. Milligan included it on his album No One's Gonna Change Our World in 1969 to aid the World Wildlife Fund. This nonsense verse, set to music, became a favourite Australia-wide, performed week after week by the ABC children's programme Playschool. His most famous poem, On the Ning Nang Nong, was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as "absolutely immortal - greatly in the tradition of Lear". Milligan also wrote verse, considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. He lived most of his life in England and served in the British Army, in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and St Paul's Christian Brothers, de la Salle, Rangoon. He spent his childhood in Poona (India) and later in Rangoon (Yangon), capital of Burma (Myanmar). His mother, Florence Mary Winifred Kettleband, was born in England. Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish-born father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA, who was serving in the British Indian Army.
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