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 MIDDLETON. 311 Great Chamberlain to the Dowager Queen. He m. about 1070, Catharine, da. o£ Robert (Bkudenell), 2d Haul ok Cardigan, by his second wife, Anne, eta, Thomas (Savaok), Viscount Savage. He d. at St. Germain-en-laye 1719, aged about 79. Will dat. 7 July 1719 [N.K.I, pr. 1 March 1726/7, and again 3 March 1812. His widow, wdio was Governess to the Princess Louise (1692-1712), at St. Germain, d- there, 11 March 1743 in her 95 year.(") Her will dat. 26 Oct. 1710, pr. 25 May 1749. 1719, S. John Middleton, styled Viscount Cleioiont, to who, but for the attainder would have been Eaul of Middleton, 17 !fi % <fcc. [S], a. and h. He, being then a Colonel, and his br. Capt. Charles Middleton taking part in the attempted invasion of Scotland in 1708 were captured by Admiral Byug ; sent prisoners to the Tower of London but were released iu 1711. At his father's death in 1719 Ac assumed the title of Earlok Middleton, &o. [S.], and was known as such. He who survived his mother appears to have <l. mini, iu or shortly before Feb. 1746/7, wheu the issue male uf( h ) the grantee became extinct. ( c ) Will dat, 14 Feb. 1740/1, pr. 25 Feb. 1746/7. MIDDLETON [Great Britain.] Barony. 1. Sir Thomas Willouguby, Bart., of Wollalon, co. I 171° Nottingham, 2d and yst. s. of Francis Willoughby, ( d ) of Wollatou afad., and of Middleton, co. Warwick (a celebrated ornithologist), by Emma, da. and coheir( c ) of Sir Henry Bernard, of Bridgeuorth ; was 4. about 1670 ; sue. his brother as seeond Baronet (a dignity cr. with a spec, rem, 7 April 1677) in Sep. 1G88 ; was M.P. for Notts (in five Paris.), 1698—1710, and for Newark, 1710-12, being cr., 1 Jan. 1711/2,(0 BARON MIDDLETON of Middleton, co. Warwick. He m., about 1690, Elizabeth, da. and coheir(s) of Sir Richard Rotii- wkll, Bart., of Ewerby and Stapleford, co. Lincoln. He d. 2 and was bur. 17 April 1729, at Middleton Will pr. 13 May 1729. His widow d. at Toug Castle, Salop. Admou. 25 Feb. 1735/6. (•) Miss Strickland, in her life of "Queen Mary Beatrice," says she lived till 1715, and having heard of the triumphant entrance of Prince Charles Edward into Edinburgh, " died iu the fond delusion that a new restoration of the Stuarts was about to take place. This "fond delusion," however, appears to be one of the authoress, for the death of the Countess " at St. Germains, aged upwards of 90 " appears in the " London Mag." for March 1743. ) His only brother Charles, is presumed to have d. before him without issue, no mention being made of him in his will or in that of their mother, dated Oct. 1740. Of his sisters (1) Elizabeth, titular Duchess of Perth (his residuary legatee) d. s.p. at Paris, at a great age (2) Catherine who m. firstly in or shortly after June 1706, "the Chevalier [Query Sir John ?] Gilford" (by whom she had a child, Mary, living 1740), and secondly Michael, Comte de Rothe, d. at Paris, 10 July 1763, aged 78. (°) The heirs male to the Earldom are to be looked for among the numerous des- cendants of the first Earl's younger brother, Alexander Middleton, D.D., Principal of Kiug's College, Aberdeen, who d- 28 May 1726, in his 82d year. It is said (N. and Q., 8th s., ii, 335), that the eldest of his 12 [should be 13] children had 18 children, of whom " the eldest (omitted by Douglas altogether) had eleven at least." See also "the Earls of Middleton " as on p. 309, note " d." ( d ) He was descended in the male line from William, 5th Lord Willoughby de Eresby (d. 1409), but the whole of his estates (Wollaton, Cossall, &0.), were derived from a totally distinct family of Willoughby, formerly Bugge, whose arms (iustead of being " Or, fretty azure," like that of the old line) were " Or, on two bars, yules, three water bougets, argent." The heiress of this last named family, Dorothy, da. of Sir Edward Willoughby, of Wollaton, m. Robert Willougliby, of Bore Place, Kent, by whom she was great great grandmother of Francis, the father of the 1st Baron. (o) Her eldest sister, Elizabeth, m. James (Brydges), 8th Barou Chaudoa of Sudeley. (f) " HorA dccimA ante meridiem." See vol. i, p. 269, note "d," sub " Bathurst." (g) The other coheir m. Sir Thomas Baruadistou, of Ketton.