Anthony Mildmay

Sir Anthony Mildmay (died 1617) was a country gentleman from Northamptonshire, England, who served as Member of Parliament for Wiltshire from 1584 to 1586 and as English ambassador in Paris in 1597.

Mildmay was the eldest son of Sir Walter Mildmay and Mary Walsingham, sister of Sir Francis Walsingham.Lee 1894, p. 390 He inherited the family estate of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, in 1589. He went to Peterhouse, Cambridge, and delivered an oration with much success when the Queen visited the college on 9 August 1564. He entered Gray's Inn in 1579.

Mildmay was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1580 and 1592. He was a Member of Parliament for Newton, Lancashire, in 1571, for Wiltshire from 1584 to 1586. and for Westminster in 1597.

He was knighted in 1596, when he was appointed as ambassador to Henry IV of France. "I always knew him," wrote Chamberlain soon after Mildmay had settled in Paris, "to be paucorum hominum, yet he hath ever showed himself an honourable fast frend where he found vertue and desert". The French King complained of Mildmay's ungenial manner and of the coldness with which he listened to the praises of the Earl of Essex. At an interview in March 1597 Henry ordered him out of his chamber and threatened to strike him. He returned home later in the year, and declined an invitation to resume the post in 1598.

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