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MI DDL ETON — M IDL ETON . 313 5 Nov. 1856 ; was Hon. Co]., 1st Brig. East Rifling Artillery Volunteers. 1862. He m 3 Aug. 1843, .it St. Geo. Han. sq., Julia Louisa, rla. of Alexander William Robert Kosvilk, formerly Macdonald,^ 1 ) of Thorpe Hall and Guuthwayte, co. Vork, by ( — ), da. of ( — ). He d. 20 Dec. 1877, aged 60, at Birdsall House, afad., from the effects of a fall from his horse ten months before. His widow, who was b. 5 April 1824, at York, living 1893. IX. 1877. 9, Digisy Wentwortii Bayard (Willoughby), Baron Middi.kton [1712], also a Baronet [1677], s. and U. ; 4. 24 Aug. 1844, at Thorpe House, near Bridlington, co. York ; ed. at Eton ; sometime (1867-69), Lieut. Scots Kusileer Guards ; sue. to the peerage, 20 Dec. 1877. He m. 24 Aug. 1814, Eliza Maria, da. of Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon- Ohm. ming, 3d Bart., by Anne Pitcairn, da. of the Rev. Augustus Campbell, Rector of Liverpool. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 14,045 acres in the north and east Ridings in Yorkshire ; 15,015 in Notts; 3,809 in Lincolnshire; 3,041 in Warwickshire, 50 in Staffordshire, and 16 in Derbyshire, besides 63 000 acres (worth but £1,957 a year) in Ross-shire in Scotland. Total 99,576 acres, worth -£51,014 a year. Principal Residences. Wollaton Hall, Notts ; Birdsall Hall ami Settrington House, Yorkshire ; Middleton Hall, Warwickshire and Appleton House (near Loch Carronl Ross-shire. Lord Middleton's acreage is just under 200,000 acres. See a list of holders of above that acreage in vol. ii, p. 51, note " a," sub " Buccleuch." MIDHURST. See "Bonus de Midhurst," Barony (BnJuin), a: 1363; dormant 1367. MIDLETON, and BRODRICK OF MIDLETON. Bavony [1] J, Alan Brodrick.C') 2d s. fif St. John Brodriok, j |71n " f MidletonjC) co. Cork, by Alice, da. of Randall Clayton, of Thehvall, co Chester, was b. about 1656 ; admitted to the Inner Viscountcy [I.] T-mple, London, 7 Jan. 1669/70 ; matric. at Oxford (Mag. Coll.), j 1717 3 May 1672, beiug then aged 16; took an active part in favour of the revolution and was, consequently, rf'fni'ntai by King James' Pari. in 1689, tho 1 appointed by William III., 19 Feb. 1690/1, Serjeant at Law. He was JtP. for Cork, 1692— 1713, and forco. Cork, 1713-14, being Speaker of the House of Commons [I.], 1713. Meanwhile he had been Solicitor Gen. [I.], 1695—1704. and Attorney Gen. [I.], 1707-10, ami Oh. Justice of the Queen's Bench [I. |, 1710-11. By George L, whose succession he had favoured, he was made, 1 Oct. 1714, Loud High Chancellor [I.], a post which he resigned in 1725. He was cr. 13 April 1715, BARON BRODRICK OF MIDLETON. ( c ) co. Cork [I.], taking his seat 12 Nov. following, and was cr. 15 Aug. 171/. VISCOUNT MIDLETON( c ) of Mid.leton, co. Cork [I.], taking his seat on the 27th.( d ) He was one of the Lords Justices (Regents) of Ireland, 1716, 1717, 1719,1723 and 1724. He was also M. P. [E.] for Midhurst, 1717-28. lie m. firstly, Catharine, 2d da. of Redmond Barry, of Rathcormick, co. Cork, by Mary, da. of John Boyle, of Castle Lyons. He m. secondly in 1695, Alice, sister and coheir of Col. John CourthoPE, da. of Sir Peter Courthope, (*) He was elder br. (by the same parents) of Godfrey William Wentworth (Bosville- Macdonald), 4th Baron Jlacdonald of Slate [I.], but was 6. (12 Sep. 1803), three mouths prior to the marriage of his parents. ( B ) There is a good pedigree of this family in Howard's " Mis. (Jen. ct Her," 1st scries, vol. ii, pp. 359-370. ( c ) " In 1653, a large grant of lands in the Barony of Barrymore, [co.] Cork," was granted to St. John Brodrick (" who had taken an active part in the civil wars beginning in 1611") and this "was supplemented under the act of settlement in 1670, by an additional grant of lands in the Baronies of Barrymore, Fermoy and Orrery, the whole being erected into the manor of Midlcton." [Nat. £iogr.] 0 1 ) The preamble of both patents is in " Lodge," vol. v, pp. 166-167.