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3 unusual facts about Middleton, Warwickshire


Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton

He succeeded to the barony on his father's death in 1729 and inherited estates at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (where he lived) and at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire.

Samuel Roper

He was the eldest son of Thomas Roper of Heanor, Derbyshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter and co-heir of Alvered Gresbrooke of Middleton, Warwickshire.

Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton

He was born at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire, the second son of Francis Willughby, the famed mathematician and naturalist ( who preferred to be known by this aberrant spelling of the family name), and was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge.


Anthony Morgan of Kilflgin

By the death of his half-brother, Colonel Thomas Morgan, who was killed at the Battle of Newbury 20 September 1643, he became possessed of the manors of Heyford and Clasthorpe, Northamptonshire; and had other property in Momouthshire, Warwickshire, and Westmoreland.

Baron Scales

The Scales family's main residences were Middleton in Norfolk, Newsells in Hertfordshire and Rivenhall in Essex but also held other lands including Ouresby and Torneton in Lincolnshire.

BBC Midlands

BBC West Midlands, the BBC English Region covering the West Midlands metropolitan county, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and parts of Northern Gloucestershire

BFI National Archive

The J. Paul Getty, Jr. Conservation Centre in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, named after its benefactor, is the base for much of the restoration work, while approximately 140 million feet of unstable nitrate film and all the master film collection held on acetate or other media is kept separately at a BFI storage site at Gaydon in Warwickshire.

Changez Charity

In January 2011, Catherine Middleton (now The Duchess of Cambridge) expressed interest in possible patronage.

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham

He was born at Leith, Midlothian to Robert Middleton, a customs collector of Bo'ness, Linlithgowshire, and Helen, daughter of Captain Charles Dundas RN and granddaughter of Sir James Dundas of Arniston.

Chief Masconomet

Masconomet Regional High School, serving Topsfield, Boxford and Middleton, Massachusetts, honors the sagamore by taking his name.

He is known for his quitclaim deed ceding all the tribal land, which extended from Cape Ann to the Merrimack River, as far inland as North Andover, Massachusetts and Middleton, Massachusetts, and as far to the southwest as the Danvers River, to John Winthrop the Younger, his heirs and all the settlers of eastern Essex County for a sum of 20 pounds, about 100 dollars.

Chris Hodgetts

Chris Hodgetts (born 6 December 1950 in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire) is a British former racing driver.

Clearwell

In the mid-19th century, the interior of the Court was refurbished by Caroline, Countess of Dunraven (d. 1870), wife of Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (d. 1850) and daughter of another Thomas Wyndham, who held Clearwell from 1814 to her death in 1870, to the designs of John Middleton.

Conyers Middleton

Middleton was one of the thirty fellows of Trinity College who on 6 February 1710 petitioned the Bishop of Ely, as visitor of the college, to take steps against Richard Bentley the Master, at odds with the fellowship.

Diane-Louise Jordan

She married violinist Giles Broadbent in July 2007 in the chapel of Rugby School, Warwickshire.

Edgar Middleton

Middleton's journalistic career continued, with appointments including aeronautical editor of the London Daily Mail, London Correspondent for the New York Sun and correspondent for the Calgary Herald in their new London office.

Edward Cromwell Disbrowe

Disbrowe's younger daughter Jane Harriet married Henry Christopher Wise of Woodcote House, Leek Wootton, Warwickshire, member of Parliament.

Elizabeth Hatton

In the early 1590s Elizabeth married firstly, Sir William Newport alias Hatton (1560-1597), the son of John Newport (d.1566) of Hunningham, Warwickshire, and his wife, Dorothy Hatton (d.1566x70), the sister of Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton.

Elkington, Northamptonshire

It is from this village that many of the Elkington branches of that surname are supposed to have been descended, mostly the Leicestershire and Oxfordshire/Warwickshire branches come from that region.

Eviota readerae

It has a very limited distribution in the southwest Pacific, being found only on the Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs.

George Beresford-Stooke

Beresford-Stooke was born on 3 January 1897 in Priors Marston, Warwickshire, on 15 January 1914 he enrolled in the Royal Navy as a Paymaster Lieutenant.

George Byrne

His uncle, James Byrne, had a more substantial first-class career, captaining Warwickshire between 1903 and 1907.

George Russell French

The first part consisted of an identification of the dramatis personae in Shakespeare's historical plays, from King John to Henry VIII, accompanied with observations on characters in Macbeth and Hamlet, and notes on persons and places belonging to Warwickshire alluded to in several plays.

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton was a member of several national, state, and local medical associations: the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physians, the American Thoracic Society, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Aesculapian Society, the Indiana Thoracic Society, and the Marion County Medical Society.

Middleton took short courses for additional training at Harvard University; the University of London, England; the University of Michigan; Indiana University; and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

James Tunstall

‘Epistola ad virum eruditum Conyers Middleton,’ (1741) an attack on the life of Cicero by Conyers Middleton that questioned the genuineness of Cicero's letters to Brutus, which Middleton had accepted without reserve.

John Eardley-Wilmot

Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (1783–1847), Governor of Tasmania, MP for Warwickshire North 1832–1843

John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton

He was the surviving son of Sir John Harington (later created Baron Harington of Exton in 1603) and his wife, Anne Keilway, daughter of Robert Keilway, Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and was born at Combe Abbey, near Coventry, Warwickshire, in April 1592.

Lavinia Byrne

Her great-uncle, J. F. Byrne, captained Warwickshire in first-class cricket and was full back of the England rugby union team

Marie Slater

Marie "Maz" Slater (born in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1972) is a British reality TV star infamous for her role as the 'Miss Nasty' resort manager of Faliraki in ITV show Club Reps.

Massachusetts Route 62

It shares a quarter-mile long concurrency with Route 28 before continuing eastward through the town into Essex County and the town of Middleton.

Michael Billig

This strand of work is shown in the collectively written work Ideological Dilemmas (1988 - with Condor, Edwards, Gane, Middleton and Radley), Banal Nationalism, and in his major study of ideology and the UK royal family, Talking of the Royal Family (1998, 2nd Edition).

Middle Quinton

About two-thirds of the site is in Warwickshire and one-third in Worcestershire and lies in both the parliamentary constituencies of Stratford-upon-Avon and Mid-Worcestershire, represented by Nadhim Zahawi MP and Peter Luff MP respectively.

Middleton Park

At the northern end of park there is an earthwork from 1204 demarcating the boundary between Middleton and Beeston.

Middleton Park House

Middleton Park House was built c.1850 by George Boyd-Rochfort, who commissioned architect George Papworth to design it and oversee its construction.

Middleton S. Barnwell

Middleton S. Barnwell was born September 9, 1882 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Mike Paradinas

After the material was played for Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton — the duo behind Global Communication and the heads of Evolution Records — it was to be released; however, recording commitments later forced Pritchard and Middleton to withdraw their agreement.

Peter's Pence

There is isolated evidence that in some parishes, payment of Peter's Pence did indeed resume during Mary's reign, for instance in Rowington, Warwickshire, where the church accounts for 1556 record the collection of 54s.

Philip Russell Rendel Dunne

A member of White's, the Turf and Jockey clubs, Dunne was Joint Master of the Warwickshire Hounds from 1932 to 1935, retiring when elected a Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for the Stalybridge and Hyde division of Cheshire at the 1935 general election, with a majority of 5,081 over Labour.

Sacriston

Melvyn Betts (born 1975), ex Durham, Warwickshire and Middlesex cricketer, born in Sacriston.

Sedgeford Torc

The torc was then acquired for the British Museum through the Duchy of Lancaster and with the assistance of the Christy Trust, and the finder, landowner A. E. Middleton was awarded the full market value of £3,300.

Studley College

Warwick Hostel expanded and moved to Studley Castle in Warwickshire in 1903, becoming Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women.

Thomas Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon

Courtenay married, at Coventry, Warwickshire, shortly after 9 September 1456, Mary of Anjou, illegitimate daughter of Charles, Count of Maine.

Thomas Middleton

Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.

The Revenger's Tragedy was adapted into Alex Cox's film Revengers Tragedy, the opening credits of which attribute the play's authorship to Middleton.

Thomas New

He was born near Studley, Warwickshire and arrived in Sydney on the Troubadour in June 1843 with his parents Cornelius and Rebecca New and his sister Emily.

Tiger Smith

Originally an employee with the Cadbury confectionery firm in Birmingham, he was first engaged by Warwickshire as a professional in 1904 but played only irregularly for over half a decade owing to the presence of Lilley behind the stumps.

Tropidophis greenwayi

Found in the West Indies in the Caicos Islands, particularly on the islands of Ambergris Cay, Long Caye, Middle Caicos, Middleton Cay, North Caicos, South Caicos, and probably also on Providenciales.

University Hospital Coventry

It is part of the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, which also includes the Hospital of St. Cross that is situated in Rugby, Warwickshire.

Women Beware Women

A modern adaptation by Howard Barker at the Royal Court Theatre in 1986, in which the first two-thirds of Middleton's play were preserved but the ending was entirely revamped; among other changes, Sordido rapes Bianca before her wedding.


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