Middleton (name)
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Middleton is a locational Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon may refer to:* Anglo-Saxons, a group that invaded Britain** Old English, their language** Anglo-Saxon England, their history, one of various ships* White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, an ethnicity* Anglo-Saxon economy, modern macroeconomic term...

 surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 originating from dozens of different settlements in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 going by one of the pre-7th century Old English variations of "middle" (such as midel) and "town" (such as tun). The earliest recorded examples of such hamlets date to 1086 and include Middeltone, Mideltuna, and Middeltune in such Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

, Shropshire
Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

, and Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

. The surname "Mideltone" is recorded in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....

 (1166), "Midilton" is noted in Arbroath
Arbroath
Arbroath or Aberbrothock is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22,785...

, Scotland (1221) and "Middelton" is found in Yorkshire (1273).

People with the surname or its variants include:
  • Archibald Middleton
    Archibald Middleton
    Archibald Middleton was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Fitzroy.-Source:* Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim . The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.*...

    , an Australian Rules footballer
  • Arthur Middleton
    Arthur Middleton
    Arthur Middleton , of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence....

    , signatory of American Declaration of Independence
  • Arthur Middleton (singer), American concert singer
  • Baron Middleton
    Baron Middleton
    Baron Middleton, of Middleton in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for Sir Thomas Willoughby, 2nd Baronet, who had previously represented Nottinghamshire and Newark in Parliament...

    , title in the British Peerage
  • Carole Middleton
    Middleton family
    Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge comes from a branch of a Middleton family. The Duchess's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, whose wealth derives from their party supplies business, have featured in the world media in the run up to their first daughter's wedding to Prince William of Wales and...

    , mother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  • Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge née Middleton
    Middleton family
    Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge comes from a branch of a Middleton family. The Duchess's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, whose wealth derives from their party supplies business, have featured in the world media in the run up to their first daughter's wedding to Prince William of Wales and...

    , (born 1982), wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
  • Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
    Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
    Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham PC was a British naval officer and politician.He was born at Leith, Midlothian to Robert Middleton, a customs collector of Bo'ness, Linlithgowshire, and Helen, daughter of Charles Dundas.-Naval career:Middleton entered the Royal Navy in 1741 as captain's...

    , admiral in the Royal Navy, evangelical and abolitionist
  • Charles B. Middleton
    Charles B. Middleton
    Charles B. Middleton was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, Charles Middleton appeared in nearly two hundred films as well as numerous plays...

    , American actor
  • Curtis P. Middleton, American writer
  • Darryl Middleton
    Darryl Middleton
    Darryl Middleton is an American professional basketball player. He also holds a Spanish passport. He is a 6'8" tall power forward...

    , American-Spanish basketball player
  • Faith Middleton
    Faith Middleton
    Faith Middleton is a Connecticut public radio talk show host. She is best known as the host of "The Faith Middleton Show" on WNPR. In addition to her radio work, Faith has hosted and produced several popular television series for Connecticut Public Television; one aired nationally...

    , American radio journalist
  • Frederick Middleton, Canadian militia leader
  • Gerard V. Middleton
    Gerard V. Middleton
    Gerard Viner Gerry Middleton FRSC is an award winning Canadian geologist and university teacher.Middleton was born in South Africa and educated in England. He obtained his batchelors and doctorate degrees from Imperial College, London. He emigrated to Canada in 1954, and taught at McMaster...

    , award winning South African-born Canadian geologist/sedimentologist
  • George Middleton (disambiguation), various including:
    • George H. Middleton
      George H. Middleton
      George H. Middleton engineer, who had worked on as a sub-contractor of the Canadian Pacific Railway and partner to Robert G. Reid in the building of the Newfoundland Railway....

      , Scottish partner and builder of Newfoundland Railway
    • George Middleton (1735–1815), African American Revolutionary War veteran
    • George Middleton (banker), early leader of Coutts
      Coutts
      Coutts & Co. is one of the UK's private banking houses, now wholly owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland . RBS acquired Coutts and all of its overseas subsidiaries when it bought NatWest. On 1 January 2008, Coutts' international businesses were renamed RBS Coutts, aligning them more closely with...

       private bank
    • George Middleton (New Jersey)
      George Middleton (New Jersey)
      George Middleton was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1863 to 1865....

      , United States Congress Representative from New Jersey
    • George Middleton (playwright)
      George Middleton (playwright)
      George Middleton was an American playwright, director, and producer.-Career:He was famous for his plays The Failures and Adam and Eva...

      , American playwright
    • George Middleton (British politician)
      George Middleton (British politician)
      Sir George Middleton was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament for Carlisle in the 1920s and 1930s...

      , Member of Parliament for Carlisle
  • Graham Middleton
    Graham Middleton
    Graham Middleton is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon.-Source:* Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim . The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing....

    , an Australian Rules footballer
  • Henry Middleton
    Henry Middleton
    Henry Middleton was a plantation owner and public official from South Carolina. He was the second President of the Continental Congress from October 22, 1774, until Peyton Randolph was able to resume his duties briefly beginning on May 10, 1775.-Early life:Henry Middleton was born in 1717 near...

     (1717–1784), 2nd President of the Continental Congress
    First Continental Congress
    The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the...

     of the United Colonies of America
  • Henry Middleton (governor)
    Henry Middleton (governor)
    Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from Charleston, South Carolina. He was the 43rd Governor of South Carolina , represented South Carolina in the U. S...

     (1770–1846), Governor of South Carolina
  • Hugh Myddelton, goldsmith
    Goldsmith
    A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...

    , entrepreneur, drainer of Brading Harbour and developer of the New River, London
  • Ian Middleton
    Ian Middleton
    Ian Middleton was a New Zealand novelist, who made a made a particular mark with his books set in post-Second World War Japan. Born in New Plymouth, he was the younger brother of noted New Zealand short story writer O. E...

    , New Zealand novelist
  • James William Middleton, Businessman, brother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  • Jenna Middleton, a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • Joe Middleton (United Kingdom), CEO of Canterbury of New Zealand
    Canterbury of New Zealand
    Canterbury of New Zealand is a New Zealand-based sports apparel company that focuses on rugby football. The company is named after the Canterbury area in New Zealand where the company started to make knitwear. Other than producing rugby kits, the brand is also known for their rugby protective wear...

  • John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton
    John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton
    John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton was a Scottish army officer, who belonged to a Kincardineshire family which had held lands at Middleton since the 12th century....

  • John Middleton (1678-1739)
    John Middleton (1678-1739)
    John Middleton was a British politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1713 to 1739, although not continuously....

    , Scottish MP
  • Joshua Middleton
    Joshua Middleton
    Joshua Middleton is an artist and designer working in the animation, film, comics, and book industries...

    , comic book artist
  • Karen Middleton (disambiguation)
  • Lloyd Middleton
    Lloyd Middleton
    Lloyd Middleton is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon.-Source:* Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim . The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing....

    , an Australian Rules footballer
  • Malcolm Middleton
    Malcolm Middleton
    Malcolm Bruce Middleton is a Scottish musician best known for his work with Aidan Moffat in post-folk indie band Arab Strap as well as his solo career writing and producing...

    , Scottish musician
  • Max Middleton
    Max Middleton
    David Maxwell "Max" Middleton . He is an English composer and keyboardist and was originally a docker on the Liverpool docks. Middleton is known for his work on the Fender Rhodes Electric piano, the Minimoog synthesiser and his percussive playing style of the Hohner Clavinet...

    , English composer and keyboardist
  • Michael Middleton
    Middleton family
    Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge comes from a branch of a Middleton family. The Duchess's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, whose wealth derives from their party supplies business, have featured in the world media in the run up to their first daughter's wedding to Prince William of Wales and...

    , father of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  • Ned Middleton, English retired major, award winning author, scuba diver and shipwreck historian.
  • Nick Middleton
    Nick Middleton
    Nick Middleton is a physical geographer and supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He specialises in desertification.Nick Middleton was born in London, England. As a geographer he has travelled to more than 50 countries...

    , English physical geographer
  • O. E. Middleton
    O. E. Middleton
    O.E. Middleton was a New Zealand writer of short stories, described as belonging to the vernacular critical realist tradition of Frank Sargeson. He was the brother of noted New Zealand novelist Ian Middleton, and like him also blind from middle age...

    , New Zealand short story writer
  • Pippa Middleton
    Pippa Middleton
    Philippa Charlotte "Pippa" Middleton is an English party planner, socialite and younger sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge...

    , English socialite, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  • Ron Middleton
    Ron Middleton
    For the football player of the same name see Ron Middleton .Rawdon Hume 'Ron' Middleton VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life: Middleton...

    , Australian Victoria Cross recipient
  • Scott Middleton, Canadian Musician, guitarist of Cancer Bats
    Cancer Bats
    Cancer Bats are a hardcore punk/sludge metal band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Background:Cancer Bats originated in May 2004 with singer Liam Cormier and guitarist Scott Middleton, former member of Toronto heavy metal band At the Mercy of Inspiration...

  • Stanley Middleton
    Stanley Middleton
    Stanley Middleton FRSL was a British novelist. He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham and University College Nottingham....

     (1919–2009), British novelist
  • Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. 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. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...

    , English Jacobean playwright
  • Thomas Cooke Middleton, O.S.A., tenth president of Villanova College now called Villanova University
  • Tom Middleton
    Tom Middleton
    Tom Middleton is a prolific British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James , co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records...

    , British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ
  • Troy Middleton, Lieutenant General during World War II
  • William Middleton (disambiguation)
    • William Shainline Middleton
      William Shainline Middleton
      William Shainline Middleton, M.D., M.A.C.P. was a prestigious American internist. He was one of the founders of the American Board of Internal Medicine and its first Secretary-Treasurer...

      , M.D., American physician-internist
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