MIDDLETON, Osborne (SHANGHAI), Manager, China Merchants S. N. Co.; b. June 18, 1847; only surviving s. of Rev. Frederic Middleton, of Edinburgh; m, 1878, Salome Elizabeth Moxham. Educ.: Murray's Grammar School, Wimbledon. Arrived in China, 1865; joined Imperial Chinese Customs; left in 1880 and joined S. C. Farnham and Co. as Manager of Old Ningpo Wharf; remained with that firm until 1883 when property was purchased by Jardine, Matheson and Co.; was engaged by Russell and Co. to manage their wharves in 1884, and on sale of their property to China Merchants S. N. Co. was engaged by latter to superintend their property and open up their wharves; during Boxer troubles in 1900 all tin's Co's property at Tientsin v.-as confiscated by allies; was ordered by Viceroy Liu Ku Yi and Sheng Taotai to proceed north to protect property; arranged with G.O.C. that property would be handed back, on conditions, upon giving up 220,000 bags of tribute rice, piculs 286,600. Clubs: Shanghai; Shanghai Race. Address: " May Villa," Kungping Road, Shanghai, China.