Middleton

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miss Middleton 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 4.4.1805 walk to Pepper Harrow, Lord Middleton / 26.9.1805 call on Raine & Middleton, Charterhouse / 10.10.1806 sir W Middleton at Fox's funeral / 6.1.1810 call on Middleton / 6.11.1810 Middleton at Ward's (with Coleridge) / 21.12.1810 Middleton at wardmote St Bride's / 26.1.1814 call on Middleton / 31.1.1814 again / 19.5.1814 adv at theatre / 1.4.1815 call on / 4.4.1816 again

29.12.1799 for miss Middleton see Atty for relationship by marriage at Whitby. Will of Martha Middleton spinster PCC 1812. Martha Middleton dau of Robert bapt Whitby 28.1.1756. Another but less likely miss Middleton would have been Emily daughter of Middleton, Nathaniel (qv) who on 15.10.1804 married Edward Jerningham born 14.7.1774

4.4.1805 George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Middleton,1754-1836,of Pepper Harrow

26.9.1805 John Middleton b25.1.1771 Alum Cantab adm St Catherine's 1789, school Charterhouse, asst master Charterhouse 1803-1806, died West Indies 1807

10.10.1806 Sir William Middleton born in South Carolina, his father William was eldest son of the governor Arthur Middleton. He married 1774 Harriet Acton, was created baronet 12.5.1804 and died 26.12.1830 (see my entry for Middleton, William in Society for Constitutional Information dataset on this website)

Probably all the rest of the above entries from 1810-1816 referred to John Middleton wholesale stationer of Skinner Street (will PCC 1843), partner in Skinner St 1811- 1814 with George Ridout Ward (will PCC 1846) who was at one time partner to Coleridge's friend Thomas Poole and involved in Coleridge's publications (see Letters of STColeridge). Middleton, Ward and Poole all hailed from the West Country, Middleton's will mentioned his wife Agnes Shorland Middleton, his brothers the Rev S Middleton and Wm Middleton of Southgate, Mx, his sisters Jane Giles of Charmouth Dorset and Elizabeth wife of Rev George Ware of Winsham, Somerset. I'm not sure if Skinner St belonged to St Bride's ward, I think it was in St Sepulchre's parish. The proximity of Godwin's shop to Ward & Middleton's may have been more than coincidence