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 March, 1801. He was soon after appointed to one of the yachts in attendance on the royal family at Weymouth, and continued to be employed on that sort of service till about April, 1804, when he succeeded Sir Isaac Coffin, as Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard, from whence he afterwards removed to Portsmouth, where he now resides.

In June, 1814, his present Majesty, (then on a visit to the fleet at Spithead, in company with the allied sovereigns) presented Commissioner Grey with the patent of a Baronetcy; and on the 20th May, 1820, he was graciously pleased to nominate him an extra K.C.B.

Sir George Grey married, in July, 1795, Mary, sister to the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P. for Bedford, (who had some years previous thereto been united to one of his sisters) by whom he has had several children.



 name of Middleton is derived from the lands of Middletoun, in Kincardineshire, of which this family were in possession for nearly four centuries and a half. The subject of this memoir is a son of the late George Middleton, Esq., brother of Admiral Lord Barham, and Collector of the Customs at Leith, by Elizabeth, daughter of George Wilson, of Stottencleugh, N.B. Esq.

Being destined for the navy, he went to sea at an early age, and we believe served as a Lieutenant in Lord Hood’s fleet, at the occupation and evacuation of Toulon, in 1793. 