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Personal data Hugh Middleton 

• He was born about 1560 in Galch Hill, Henllan, Denbighshire, Wales.Source 2
• Profession: Sir.Sources 2, 3
• (Alt. Birth) in the year 1561: Galch Hill, Henllan, Denbighshire, Wales.Source 3
• (Alt. Death) on December 10, 1631: Edmonton Parish, London, England.Source 2
• He died on December 10, 1631 in Basinghall Street, London, London, England.Sources 2, 3

  Middlesex

• He is buried in St. Matthew, Friday Street, London, London, England.
• A child of Richard Myddleton and Jane Dryhurst
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Hugh Middleton

(1) He is married to Anne Collins.

They got married

(2) He is married to Elizabeth Olmstead.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. [issue] Middleton  

Notes about Hugh Middleton

[Jesse Macon Lawrence Jr]

Middelton, Sir Hugh - projector of the New River, born at Galch Hill in the parish of Henllan, Denbigh, North Wales in 1559 or 1560, was the sixth son of Richard Myddelton, M.P. Governor of Denbigh Castle, by Jane, daughter of Hugh or Richard Dryhurst, alderman of Denbigh (Burke, "Extinct Baronetage", p. 351).  Sir Thomas Myddelton, Lord Mayor of London, and William Myddelton were brothers.  There is a tradition that Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Hugh Myddelton would sit together at the door of the former's shop and smoke the newly introduced weed tobacco, greatly to the amazement of the passers-by. Hugh Myddelton was appointed recorder of Denbigh and in 1603 he was elected M.P. for the borough, and again in 1614, 1620, 1623, 1625 and 1628.

Hugh was married first to Anne, daughter of Mr. Collins of Lichfield, and widow of Richard Edwards of London, and she died childless.  He married secondly to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Olmstead of Ingatestone, Essex, by whom he had ten sons and six daughters.

Hugh died in Basinghall Street on 10 Dec. 1631, aged 71 (Probate Act Book, P.C.C. 1631) and was buried in accordance with his desire in St. Matthew, Friday Street, where he had been officiated as churchwarden (will registered in P.C.C. 137, St.John, and printed in "Wills from Doctors' Commons", Camd. Soc).

Portraits of Myddelton and his second wife, painted by Cornelius Jansen, belonged in 1866 to the Rev. J.M. St. Clere Raymond.  Another portrait of Myddelton by Jansen hangs in Goldsmiths' Hall.

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