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| Sir Thomas Middleton, Knt., of Stanstead Mountfichet, baptized 21 April 1654 at St. Antholin's, London; M.P. for Harwich 1679, 1681, 1688, 1690, 1695, and 1698; High Sheriff of Essex 10 Charles II.; knighted at Whitehall 14 December 1675; died 11 June 1702; buried 14 June following at Stanstead Mountfichet. Will dated 16 July 1694; proved 30 July 1702 by son Thomas.

Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton of Stanstead Mountfichet, The Hon. Elizabeth, born 1676; baptized at St. Giles-in-the-Fields | da. of the Right Hon. 12 September 1676; married at Hammersmith Sir Richard Onslow 14 July 1696; M.P. for the county of Essex of East Clandon, Surin the second, third, fourth, and fifth Parlia- rey, 1st Baron Onslow ments of Queen Anne; died 29 April 1715 at (so created 25 June the Vicarage House, Stanstead Mountfichet; 1716), sometime Speaker of the House buried at Stanstead Mountfichet 7 May 1715. of Commons, Chancel1st husband. lor of the Exchequer, and a Lord of the Treasury, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Henry Tulse, Knt., Lord Mayor of London; marriage licence 13 July 1696, she aged 19, Thomas Middleton aged 20; she died 15 January 1742.

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Mary, only da. and heir of Sir Stephen Langham of Quinton, Northants, by Mary, da. of Derrick Hoste, Esq.; widow of Thomas Style, Esq., eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Style, Bart., of Wateringbury, Kent, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Armine, Bart.; buried 27 December 1686.

Bromefeild Middleton, born 29 May 1659; baptized 7 June following at Stanstead Mountfichet; died young.

Samuel Baldwin of London, died at Lymington, Hants, 12 May 1736. Will 22 March 1735; Codicil 7 April 1736; proved 26 May 1736 by Francis Ayscough, D.D. In this the words are, "My will is that after my decease that my Body shall be put into a Leaden coffin and Buried in some of the deepest sands of the Sea near adjacent without any Ceremony." "He ordered his corpse to be buried in the sea amongst the Rocks called the Needles, at the West End of the Isle of Wight; the Body being put into a leaden Coffin, was conveyed in a large Boat to the place appointed, attended by a Clergyman to read the Funeral Service; but to the Surprize of the Spectators, when the Corpse was put into the Sea, it would not sink, which occasioned various conjectures among the superstitious; but several Holes being bored in the Coffin, to let in the Water, it sunk." ('Gent. Mag.,' 1736, p. 293.) 2nd husband.

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Diana Mid-Sir Thomas Trollope, dleton, sur- 4th Bart., of Casewick, Lincolnshire; died 7 October 1784, in his 93rd year, at Casewick. Will dated 20 June 1779; Codicil 18 April 1781; proved 3 November 1784.

TROLLOPE of Casewick, of whom the
Lords Kesteven, and the Authors,
Thomas Adolphus and Anthony
Trollope.

Ireland; remarried, 27 October 1762, to Mary, da. of Sir Ralph Gore, Bart., by Elizabeth, da. of St. George Ashe, Bishop of Clogher, and sister of Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross, who also died s.p.

Williams Conyngham, died aged 14.

Williamina Conyngham, born 1732; died young.

cousin; one

Anne Middleton, married 1730 ;Denzill Onslow of Drungswick, Sussex, her
died at Eltham 6 January, buried
there 13 January 1772. Will,
"of John Street, Hanover
Square," dated 11 January
1766; Codicil 20 April 1771;
proved 4 February 1772.

of the Commissioners of the Salt Excise; died 15 No-
vember 1765; buried at Mitcham, Surrey. Will dated
18 February 1762, " of Kevingtown in St. Mary Cray,
Kent, Esq."; proved 27 November 1762.

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. da. of Trevor Borrett, Esq. (son of John Borrett, Esq., of Preston in
Shoreham, Kent, Master of the Inner Temple and Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas, by Elizabeth, youngest da. of Sir John Trevor, Knt., Secretary
of State to King Charles II.).

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Sophia, da. of Sir Stephen
Lushington, Bart.,
Southill Park, Berks; mar-
ried 20 September 1800 at
Wimbledon ; died 17
March 1860; buried at
Kensal Green. 2nd wife.

Middleton Onslow.

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Stephen Middleton of Quinton, co. Northampton, and
Bishopsgate Street, London, born 27 September, bap-
tized 28 September 1681 at Stanstead Mountfichet;
died 4 May 1716 in Covent Garden, London (the last
male representative of the Middletons of Essex);
buried at Stanstead Mountfichet 12 May 1716. Will
dated 10 January 1715; proved 4 June 1716 by
grandmother Dame Mary Langham, widow.

Stephen Middleton

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Stephen Wren, M.D., born 1724; published "The Parentalia' in 1750.

Sir Roger Burgoyne, 4th Bart.,Constance Middleton,Christopher Wren, Esq., Architect, son of the celebrated of Sutton, Bedfordshire, and born 28 December Architect, Sir Christopher Wren; born 16 February Wroxall, Warwick; marriage 1682; baptized fol- 1675; M.P. for Windsor 1712 and 1714. Constance allegation 21 June 1703, when lowing day at Stan- was his second wife. He was of Wroxall, Warwick, and he was aged 22 and she 20. stead Mountfichet; Author of The Parentalia'; died 24 Aug. 1747; buried Will dated 2 November 1710; died 23 April 1734. in Wroxall Abbey. Will dated 10 February 1745; proved proved 29 March 1716. 1st 31 August 1747 by his son Stephen. 2nd husband. husband.

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Constance Pigott, legatee of Sir Roger Burgoyne 19 February 1755.

Thomas Middleton,
baptized 11 March
1598-9, buried 29
May 1600, both at
St. Matthew's, Fri-
day Street.

PEDIGREE. (See page 221.)

Sir Hugh Middleton, 6th son, of London and Bush Hill Elizabeth Olmstead. 2nd wife.

Hugh Middleton, baptized 20 September
1601 at St. Matthew's, Friday Street;
mentioned in the New River Charter
1619; styled son and heir 1620. Granted
a pass 10 November 1623 "to travell
into forraigne parts for 3 years with 2
servants & provisions not prohibited.
Proviso not to goe to Rome." (Privy
Council Registers.) Dead by 1631.

John Middleton, called of Beddington,
Surrey, Gent., 19 Feb. 1663 (Close
Rolls); killed on board Sir Edward
Spragge's ship in the sea fight in Sole
Bay 3 June 1665, and died in the
Earl of Rochester's arms. He was
unmarried.

Elizabeth Middleton,
owner of four New
River Shares; died 9
Dec. 1673, aged 43;
buried in Enfield
Church, where there
is a monument to her
memory. 1st wife.

Sir William Middleton, 2nd Bart. of this creation,Eleanor, da. of Sir
baptized 10 April 1603 at St. Matthew's, Friday Thomas Harris of
Street; Governor of Denbigh Castle; succeeded Shrewsbury, Bart.
his father as Governor of the New River. Will,
"of Hoddesdon, Herts,' dated 12 May 1651.
Adm'on to son Hugh 26 March 1652. (There is
a portrait of him at Cobham Hall, Kent.)

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Giles Grene, married Margaret,
da. of Edmund Soame, his
cousin ; died sans issue.

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Jane Grene, only child and heir, Rev. Richard Ellacombe of Balliol College, Oxon, owner in right of died 1786.

his wife of four New River Shares; died 1778.

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Hence ELLACOMBE Family (1895).

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