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Four sons,

called
Thomas,
all died in
early in-
fancy.

Edward Rich, Earl of Warwick and Holland, born 1673; died 31 July 1701. 1st husband.

Charlotte Middleton, only da. and heir. Her first marriage
allegation 15 February 1696-7, aged about 16, at disposal of
Dame Mary Bridgeman, both parents being dead. Her
second marriage took place 3 August 1716. She died 7
July 1731. (There are two portraits of her at Bilton.)

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Edward Henry Rich, Earl of Warwick and Holland, born
January 1698; Lord of the Bedchamber to George, Prince
of Wales, 1718, and to King George I. 9 May 1719; died
unmarried 16 August 1721.

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Charlotte Addison, only child, of Bilton, Warwick, born 30 January
1718-19 in London; baptized 26 February 1718-19 at St. Martin-
in-the-Fields; died unmarried at Bilton, and buried there 10
March 1797. (There is a portrait of her at Bilton.)

Richard Middleton, 3rd son, of Llys-Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Ryder, Knt., of Bethnal rasi, and of London, Merchant ; born Green, Middlesex, by Priscilla Twedy his wife. 4 May 1631; died about 1700.

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Robert Middleton of Chirk Castle, to which he=Anne, da. and coheir succeeded on the death of his cousin Sir Wil- of Sir James Reade, liam 5 January 1718; baptized 14 June 1678 Bart., of Brocket Hall, at St. Olave's, Hart Street; M.P. for Denbigh Herts, by Love, da. Borough 1722-33, and Recorder of Shrews- and coheir of Robert bury; died without issue 5 April 1733. Dring of Isleworth, Middlesex, Esq., died 1733.

John Middleton of Chirk Castle, F.R.S., M.P. for Denbigh Borough 1733-41, and Denbigh County 1741-2; baptized at St. Olave's, Hart Street, 21 October 1685; died 9 April 1747 at Knightsbridge; buried at Chirk. Will dated 31 March 1742. Adm'on 20 May 1747.

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Mary, da. of
Thomas
Lyddell of
Bedford
Row, St.
Andrew's,
Holborn, by
Mary his
wife. In-
denture of
marriage

26 February
1723.

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Mary Middle--Lieut. - General Tayler, ton, died 4 Colonel of the 24th March 1790. Regiment, died October or November 1793. (European Magazine.')

Anne Middleton, buried-Robert Townsend of Christleton, at Christleton, near Chester, 16 May 1766. 1st wife.

thirty-five years Recorder of Chester, died at Liverpool 1 May 1791 in his 83rd year.

Elizabeth, da. of William Farrington, Merchant, of Chester; married 21 November 1782. 2nd wife.

Mary Myddelton Stane Myddelton

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Euphemia Crawford "of Pall-Richard Middleton of Chirk Castle, only son and heir, Lord-Elizabeth, eldest da. of Sir "married at St. George's, Lieutenant of co. Denbigh; M.P. for Denbigh Borough Mall," Hanover Square, 12 March 1747-88; a Knight of the Holy Roman Empire 13 April 1789; died in Queen Street, 1785; died in Grafton Street, London, 2 April 1795 in his Pimlico, 19 May 1825, aged 76. 70th year; buried at Chirk 18 April 1795. (Portrait by 3rd wife. Cotes at Chirk.)

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Maria Middleton, 4th da. and coheir, Hon. Frederick West, 3rd son of
married 31 May 1798; died in Upper | John, 2nd Earl De la Warr;
Grosvenor Street, London, 23 Octo- died 22 March 1852.
ber 1843. 2nd wife.

Hence CORNWALLIS-WEST of Ruthin Castle, Denbigh.

Mary
John Rushout, 4th Bart., of Lloyd,
Northwick Park, Worcester,
by Lady Anne Compton, 4th ried
da. of George, Earl of North- 1778;
ampton; died 7 November died
1772 at Calais on her way
to Italy; buried at Chirk 18
November following. She wife.
was sister to John, 1st Lord
Northwick. (Portrait at

Chirk.) 1st wife.

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1788.
2nd

Harriet Middleton, 5th da. and coheir, of Ruthin
Castle, died unmarried. Left her share of the
estates to her nephew Frederick Richard West, M.P.

Harriet Myddetton

Anne Middleton, 2nd da., buried at Chirk 16 July 1781.

Anne Myddelton

Charlotte Middleton, 3rd da. and co-
heir, succeeded to Chirk 1796; mar-
ried 24 December 1801; died 1843.

Robert Biddulph of Ledbury,
Hereford, and Cofton Hall,
Worcester, Esq., died at
Cheltenham 30 August 1814.

Hence MYDDELTON-BIDDULPH of Chirk Castle, Denbigh.

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Richard Middleton of Chirk and Casterton Parva, near Stamford; M.P. for the Borough of Denbigh; died unmarried at Chirk Castle 20 December 1796.

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Elizabeth Middleton, eldest da., buried at Chirk 26 January 1781.

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Priscilla Middleton, baptized at St. Olave's, Hart Street, 30 November 1669; buried at Chirk 30 September 1734.

Priscilla MySDelton

Anne Middleton, baptized at St. Olave's,
Hart Street, 21 August 1674; buried at
Chirk 24 September 1760.

Mary Myddelton Anne Mgdeltor

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Charles Middleton, 6th son, of Plâs Bodsley, born 16 July 1635 married at Lambeth 18 June 1660; died 1691, and buried at Lambeth, but unrecorded in the Register.

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Jane, da. of Sir Robert Needham of Lambeth, Knt., by Jane, da. and heir of William Cokayne. The famous beauty of Charles II.'s Court. Pepys calls her "the fair Madam Middleton," and Evelyn "that famous and indeed incomparable Beauty." St. Evremond wrote an epitaph on her, and there is mention of her in the Memoirs of de Gramont. One of her sisters was Eleanor, mistress to James, Duke of Monmouth, by whom she had, with other issue, Henrietta, Duchess of Bolton. (See 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,' xxxix., 439.) Buried at Lambeth, but unrecorded in the Register, 1692. (Her picture by Lely is at Hampton Court.)

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Elizabeth Middleton, legatee of cousin Sir Richard 19 February 1711.

Thomas Powell, Esq., son and heir of Sir Thomas Powell, Bart., of Horsley; born 1650; High Sheriff of Denbigh 1684; died 9 April 1689, having remarried; buried at Gresford. 2nd husband.

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Anne Middleton, only child and heir, baptized at
Wrexham 29 March 1668; died 14 August 1693.

William Robinson of Gwersylt, parish of Gresford, co. Denbigh; High Sheriff of
Denbigh 1690; died 15 November 1717, aged 49; buried in Gresford Church.

William Robinson Lytton of Knebworth, Herts, buried 27 November Elizabeth, da. and sole heir of Giles Heysham of London, 1732 at Knebworth. He took the name of Lytton on succeeding to the | Merchant; buried 10 August 1737 at Knebworth. Knebworth Estate.

Hence BULWER-LYTTON, Earls Lytton, Barons Lytton and Dalling, etc.

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