Nathaniel Middleton Esq.

???? - 1807


Biography

East India Co. man and then partner in the London and Middlesex Bank with Gerard Noel Noel, George Templer and John Wedgwood (each of whom q.v.). Reportedly, he also held in a personal capacity a mortgage of £16,000 over estates and enslaved people in Jamaica, entered into in the 1790s. His wife Ann Frances Morse was the daughter of John Morse (q.v.), and the couple appear to have assigned her 1/5th share in the estates of John Morse c. 1784, possibly to his wife's nephew Robert Green, and then at some stage to her brother Robert Morse (q.v.), who later returned her share.


Sources

RBS/Citizens Financial Group, Inc. Historical Research Report: Predecessor Institutions Research Regarding Slavery and the Slave Trade (first published May 25, 2006; updated May 29, 2009), p. 7; Bowyer, T. H. 2006 "Middleton, Nathaniel (1750–1807), East India Company servant." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 20 Dec. 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-69059.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Will

Reference:PROB 11/1470/260 Description: Will of Nathaniel Middleton of Town Hill , Hampshire Date: 25 November 1807 Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record

The will is short and uninformative, leaving all his property to his wife Ann.

Oxford DNB Entry

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner

Middleton is listed as deceased in mortgage papers from 1817, with his son Hastings acting as administrator.


Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Name partner
 

Relationships (5)

Business partners
Business partners
Husband → Wife
Son-in-law → Father-in-law
Business partners