Modern English biography

_Lancet 7 March 1891 p._ 579. MIDDLEMORE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1802; leather merchant Birmingham and a government contractor, retired; a town councillor of Birmingham 1839; gave and laid out a recreation ground of four acres in the centre of the town; a benefactor to the Baptist cause; gave £500 towards price of Aston hall and park 1863; a liberal donor to the school of art 1844 and to the art gallery; chairman of Birmingham wagon co. _d._ 38 Elvetham road, Birmingham 15 Jany. 1887. MIDDLETON, SIR HENRY WILLOUGHBY, 8 Baron (1 son of Henry Willoughby, M.P. 1780–1849). _b._ Apsley hall, Notts. 28 Aug. 1817; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; succeeded his cousin as 8 baron 5 Nov. 1856; capt. South Notts. yeomanry cavalry 1861; hon. col. 1 brigade East Riding artillery volunteers 1862; bought the Middleton pack from sir Tatton Sykes 1853, hunted 5 days a week at his sole expense to 1860, spending £20,000, a guarantee fund of £2,000 was raised in 1860, master of the hounds to his death; presented with a testimonial and his portrait by Henry T. Wells, R.A. Dec. 1877; bought the parish of West Bruton, Notts. 941 acres March 1857. _d._ Settrington house, Birdsall, Yorks. 20 Dec. 1877. _Times 21 Dec. 1877 p._ 3; _Baily’s Mag. x_ 269–71 (1865), _portrait_. MIDDLETON, CHARLES. _b._ 1787; ensign 1 foot 19 Sep. 1804; captain 22 light dragoons 25 Feb. 1810, placed on h.p. 25 Sep. 1820; captain 2 dragoon guards 10 Jany. 1822; lieut.-col. 3 dragoons 3 Dec. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1851; commandant of cavalry depot, Maidstone 1 Jany. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; major 72 foot 16 June 1825, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1825; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Rockey hill terrace, Maidstone 23 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xliii_ 84 (1855). MIDDLETON, SIR GEORGE NATHANIEL BROKE, 3 Baronet (4 son of sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke 1776–1841, 1 Baronet). _b._ Plymouth 26 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1821 etc.; entered R.N. 16 Aug. 1825; captain 18 Dec. 1845; commander of the Gladiator 1854; at attack on Bomarsund, then in the Black Sea 1854–5; C.B. 5 July 1855; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 Feb. 1855; assumed name of Middleton by r.l. 17 July 1860; sheriff of Suffolk 1864; admiral 22 Jany. 1877; rode to hounds when over seventy; a liberal supporter of Suffolk sports. _d._ Shrublands near Ipswich 14 Jany. 1887. _Baily’s Mag. xlvii_ 129 (1887). MIDDLETON, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 1827; landscape painter at Norwich; his landscapes were noted for their effective rendering of the seasons of the year; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. and 15 at B.I. 1847–55. _d._ of consumption at Surrey st. Norwich 11 Nov. 1856. MIDDLETON, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 1817; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1844, LL.D. 1849; member of college of doctors of the law 2 Nov. 1849; steward of doctors’ commons 1860 to death; reported in the Court of probate and divorce, his reports are comprised in The Law Reports, Courts of probate and divorce vols. 1–3 (1869–75) and Probate division vols. 1–3 (1876–8). _d._ Marine lodge, Southend 6 March 1878. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxii_ 394 (1878). MIDDLETON, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Wm. Middleton, solicitor, _d._ 1885). _b._ Leeds 1838; solicitor at Leeds 1860 to death; a founder of Leeds and county conservative club; vice president of Incorporated law society, Leeds 1881, president 1882 and 1883; member of council of Incorporated law society of the United Kingdom 1883 to death. _d._ Fairfield, Far Headingley near Leeds 16 July 1887. _bur._ Chapel Allerton ch. near Leeds 19 July. _Law Times 6 Aug. 1887 p._ 266. MIDDLETON, JOSEPH (younger son of Joseph Middleton of Grove house near Leeds). _b._ 28 March 1818; pupil of Thomas Chitty; barrister M.T. 9 June 1843; went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough, June 1865 to death; author of Hyacinth, a poem and lyrics 1840; Stanhope, a domestic novel 1845; Marmaduke Lorrimer 3 vols. 1850; Love versus law, or marriage with a deceased wife’s sister 3 vols. 1855. _d._ Gibton grove, Roundhay near Leeds 24 Dec. 1871. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xvi_ 162 (1872). MIDDLETON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Second lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1839, colonel 10 Nov. 1868 to death; deputy adjutant general R.A. 1 Oct. 1870 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ on board royal mail steamer Douro, bound for Lisbon 13 April 1875. MIDDLETON, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of George Middleton). _b._ 1846; cornet 12 lancers 9 May 1865, captain 4 Jany. 1871 to 11 July 1874 when he sold out; extra A.D.C. to lord lieut. of Ireland 1870–4; first whip to the 12th lancers harriers 1865–6 and hunted the drag hounds at Ballincolley, co. Cork 1866–8; rode his first steeple chase at Cork 1867; his horse Lord of the Harem won 29 races; won the Irish grand military cup on Waterford at Punchestown 1873 and 1874; the best rider to hounds since James Mason; acted as pilot across country to the empress of Austria during her 4 hunting visits to England and Ireland 1876 and 1878–80; a cricketer and member of I. Zingari; known as “Bay Middleton”; _killed_ while riding in the Midland sportsman’s cup steeplechase at Herd Hill farm near Kineton, Warwickshire 9 April 1892. _bur._ Haselbeck, Northamptonshire 14 April. _Baily’s Mag. xlv_ 1–2 (1886) _portrait_, _lvii_ 350 (1892); _Sporting Mirror_, _v_ 13 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 16 April 1892 p._ 479, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 23 April 1892 p._ 209, _portrait_. MIDLETON, WILLIAM JOHN BRODRICK, 7 Viscount (3 son of hon. Charles Brodrick, abp. of Cashel 1761–1822). _b._ 8 July 1798; ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Ashstead, Surrey 1822–25; R. of Castle Rising, Norfolk 1825–39; R. of Bath 1839–54; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; raised to rank of a viscount’s son by royal warrant 1849; canon of Wells 1855–63; dean of Exeter 2 April 1863 resigned Nov. 1867; succeeded his brother as 7 viscount 2 Dec. 1863; author of Facts and documents, the negotiation between the rector of Bath and the committee of the Weymouth house school. Bath 1840. _d._ Peper Harow 29 Aug. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 283, 363 (1870); _Mayor’s Notabilia of Bath_ (1879) 197. MIDWINTER, WILLIAM. _b._ Forest of Dean, Gloucs. 19 June 1852; went to Australia; learnt cricket at Bendigo, Victoria; played for Victoria against New South Wales in 9 matches 1875–87; came to England 1877; played for Gloucestershire 1877–81; member of the United South of England eleven; played for English team in Australia 1881–2; played for Australian team in England 1884; lessee of various hotels in Melbourne; went out of his mind