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330 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Patron of seven livings, Middleton, V. Warwickshire. Carlton -le- Moorland cum Stapleford, V. Lincolnshire. Wollaton cum Cossal, R. Trowell, R. Saundby, R. cum N. Wheatly, Nottinghamshire. Wharram-le-Street, V. and Wharram Percy, V. Yorkshire. Creation, Baron Middleton of Middleton, Warwickshire, in the peerage of Great Britain, 1711. A Baronet, 1677. Arms, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, or, frettee, azure, Willoughby ; 2nd and 3rd, or, two bars, gules, charged with three water bougets, two on the upper and one on the lower bar, argent. (Crest, A man's head couped at the shoulders, affrontee, proper, ducally crowned, or. Supporters, Dexter, a grey Mar habited, proper, holding in his right hand a staff and rosary of beads, and in the same hand the staff of a banner leaning bendwise against his shoulder, or, and thereon hoisted a banner, gules, charged with an owl, argent, standing supporterwise, and gorged with a ducal -coronet and chain, or ; sinister, a wild man, wreathed round the temples and loins with laurel, advancing with the left leg, hold- ing in the left hand a club, reversed, and supporting against his left shoulder a banner, as the dexter. Seats, WoUaton-house, Nottingham ; Birdsall -house, Malton, and Settrington -house, Yorkshire: Middleton-hall, Warwickshire; Applecross, Ding wall, Ross-shire, N.B. Town Address, St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, W. Clubs, Carlton, Boodle's. MIDDLETON, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his cousin, Digby, 7th Baron Middleton, b. Nov. 26, 1769; succeeded his cousin, June 19, 1835; was a Captain. R.N. ; and d. unmarried Nov. 5, 1856. A crown from a lance. MIDLETON, VISCOUNT. (BRODRICK.) Sits as BARON BRODRICK. WILLIAM BRODRICK, 8th Viscount in the peerage of Ireland, and 5th Baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom. Born Jan. 6th, 1830 ; succeeded his fa- ther Aug. 1870; educated at Eton, and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. -Jnd class in Classics 185 f, M.A. 1861). Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 1855. Is a Magistrate and Dep. Lieut, for Surrey, and a Magistrate lor co. Cork. Unsuc- cessfully contested East Surrey 1865; sat as M.P. for Mid Surrey from Nov. 1868 till Aug. 1870; appointed Lord High Steward of Kingston 1875. Married (1853) the Hon. Augusta Mary, 3rd daughter of the 1st Baron Cottesloe, and has issue, living, Sows, William St. John Fremantle, b. 1856; educated at Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford. Laurence Alan, b. 1864. Arthur Grenville, b. 1868. Daughters lining, Augusta Louisa, b. 1854. Helen Anna, b. 1858. Edith Mary, b. I860. Albinia Lucy, b. 186l. Marian Cecilia, b. 1869. Brothers living, George Charles, A. 1831. Henry, 6.1838; m. 1st, 1862; 2ndly, 186p. The Rev. Alan, b. 1840, m. 1866. Sister lining, Harriet, b. 1834. Creations, Baron Brodrick of Midleton, Cork, 1715, Viscount Midleton, 1717, both in the peerage of Ireland, Baron Brodrick of Peper Harow, Surrey, in the peerage of Great Britain, 1796. Srtns, Argent: on a chief, vert, two spears' heads of the field, erect, and the points embrued, gules. Crest, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a spear head, argent, em- brued, gules. Supporters Two men in armour, proper, each holding a spear in the exterior hand. Seats, Peper Harow, and Moushill-manor, Godalming, Surrey ; Cahirmone, Midleton, Cork. Town Residence, 89, Eaton Square, S.W. Clubs, Carlton, Athenaeum.