Buff Milner

Buff Milner

Full name	Henare Pawhara Milner
Date of birth	(1946-02-12)12 February 1946
Place of birth	Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand
Date of death
Place of death	London, United Kingdom
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
School	Tokomaru Bay District High School
Notable relative(s)	Nehe Milner-Skudder (cousin)
Occupation(s)	Soldier
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Utility back
New Zealand No.	683
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1963–65 1966–72 1972–78	East Coast Wanganui Counties	35 41
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1970 1971–75	New Zealand New Zealand Māori	1	(0)

Henare Pawhara "Buff" Milner (12 February 1946 – 2 March 1996) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A utility back, Milner represented East Coast, Wanganui, and Counties at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1970. He played 16 matches for the All Blacks on their tour of South Africa that year, including one international. A professional soldier, Milner died suddenly in 1996 in the United Kingdom while there on an army course.

He was the cousin of Nehe Milner-Skudder, who made his All Black debut in 2015.