Middleton family explained

Middleton
Caption:Arms granted to Michael Francis Middleton (father of Catherine, Princess of Wales) on 19 April 2011, as the armigerous head of the family[1]
Region:Bucklebury, West Berkshire, England
Origin:United Kingdom
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Estate:Bucklebury Manor

The Middleton family is an English family that has been related to the British royal family by marriage since the wedding of Catherine Middleton to Prince William in April 2011, when she became the Duchess of Cambridge. The couple have three children: George, Charlotte and Louis. Tracing their origins back to the Tudor era,[2] the Middleton family of Yorkshire of the late 18th century were recorded as owning property of the Rectory Manor of Wakefield with the land passing down to solicitor William Middleton who established the family law firm in Leeds which spanned five generations.[3] [4] Some members of the firm inherited woollen mills after the First World War.[5] [6] By the turn of the 20th century, the Middleton family had married into the British nobility and, by the 1920s, the family were playing host to the British royal family.[7] [8]

History

By the late Georgian era, the Middleton family were established in the West Riding of Yorkshire as cultural and civic figures, particularly in the legal profession. The law firm Messrs Middleton & Sons was founded in Leeds in 1834 by gentleman farmer and solicitor William Middleton, Esq. (1807–1884) of Gledhow Grange-Hawkhills Estate. One of his sons, solicitor Arthur Middleton (1846–1907),[9] inherited Hawkhills from his father.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

William Middleton's descendants include his grandson (Richard) Noël Middleton (1878–1951), a solicitor, director of the family woollen manufacturing firm and co-founder of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra.[15] [16] [17] Noël Middleton's youngest son was Captain Peter Francis Middleton, who was Prince Philip's co-pilot on a tour of South America.[18] [19] Peter Middleton's second son is entrepreneur Michael Francis Middleton, who married Carole Goldsmith in 1980 and subsequently relocated to Berkshire.[20] The couple founded a mail-order supply company, Party Pieces, in 1987, but sold it in May 2023 after it fell into administration.[21] The company was at one point estimated to be worth £30 million,[22] [23] but by the time it collapsed it owed £2.6 million to creditors, including £612,685 owed to HM Revenue and Customs, £218,749 owed to Royal Bank of Scotland for a Coronavirus Business Interruption loan, and £20,430 to an Afghan refugee whose small business was a supplier of helium gas.[24] [25] [26] The company's administrator's report stated that unsecured creditors were unlikely to be paid.[27]

The couple's children are: Catherine Elizabeth, Princess of Wales, socialite and columnist Philippa Charlotte Matthews and businessman James William Middleton.[28] The Middletons purchased Bucklebury Manor in 2012.[29]

Aristocratic ties

Robert Lacey describes the Middleton family as having aristocratic kinship.[30] The Middletons were "friends of British royalty" to whom, in their civic capacity, they "played host as long ago as 1926".[31] [32] [33] [34] The great-grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Noël Middleton, and his elder brother, photographer[35] and civil engineer[36] Captain William Middleton (1874–1940)[37] reportedly wed their fiancées in Leeds at Mill Hill Chapel in the years before the First World War. Mrs William Middleton (née Agnes Clara Talbot) was the niece of Sir James Kitson, 1st Baronet (later 1st Baron Airedale),[38] [39] [40] who led the chapel's congregation at this time,[41] while Mrs Noël Middleton (née Olive Christiana Lupton)[42] was the first cousin-once-removed of Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton),[43] and the second cousin of Baroness Airedale (née Florence von Schunck) and of Lady Bullock (née Barbara Lupton).[44] [45] [46] [47]

Two of the grandchildren of William Middleton (1807–1884) were solicitor Henry Dubs Middleton (1880–1932), a Charterhouse alumnus, and Gertrude Middleton (1876–1942), educated at St Leonards School,[48] [49] who were both students at the University of Oxford between 1899 and 1903; Gertrude, the "wealthy"[50] [51] sister of Noël Middleton, studied at St Anne's College while her cousin studied law at University College.[52] [14] [53] [54] Henry served as Chairman of Leeds General Infirmary where he played host to Princess Mary in 1932.[55] He was married to golfer Jane Middleton (née Berney) (1878–1964),[56] a daughter of Sir Henry Hanson Berney, 9th Baronet.[57] [58] Their sons were Ralph Middleton (1908–1990), who was, like their father, a solicitor who later headed the family law firm, and cricketer Cecil Middleton (1911–1984).They were educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford.[59] [60]

Family law and woollen manufacturing firms

Many relatives of Michael Middleton (father of the Princess of Wales) were solicitors in the Leeds-based family firm, Messrs Middleton & Sons. His grandfather Noël Middleton, great-grandfather John William Middleton, Esq. (1839–1887),[61] and great-great-grandfather William Middleton, Esq., as well as many other Middleton relatives, were all solicitors at the law firm which William had established in 1834.[14] [62]

William Middleton's great-grandson John Alfred Middleton (later Middleton-Joy, 1895–1975)[63] was the son of Gilbert Middleton (1865–1921), a church soloist (the Church of St Oswald, Filey and St Chad's Church, Far Headingley)[64] [65] and solicitor.[66] John Alfred Middleton studied at Winchester College where he was a substitute in the college's First XI in the 1914 Eton Match.[67] He studied at Christ Church, Oxford where he gained a legal qualification (Jurisprudence).[68] [69] He married Dorothea, daughter of Judge Thomas D. Beighton.[70] Middleton and his wife were members of Ascot Heath.[71] Reportedly one of "the keenest women in Leeds on horse-racing matters", Mrs John Alfred Middleton-Joy and her husband dined alongside fellow racing enthusiasts Princess Mary and her husband, the Earl of Harewood, at a Tangiers hotel in February 1934.[72]

John Middleton-Joy's elder brother, solicitor Alan Lomas Middleton (1893–1970)[73] was, like his brother, an Oxford graduate. Alan and their father Gilbert, a Cheltenham College alumni, were members of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club as was Gilbert's brother Noël Middleton.[74] [75] [76] Alan's son David Middleton (died 2023) attended Winchester and then went up to New College, Oxford University after which he was a solicitor at the family law firm and President of the Leeds Law Society.[77] David attended the wedding at Westminster Abbey in April 2011 of Catherine Middleton – his second cousin, once removed – to Prince William.[78]

Noël Middleton was a director of William Lupton & Co., the Leeds textile manufacturing firm his wife, Olive, had inherited in 1921.[79] [80] [81] [82] His two elder sons, Christopher Maurice Middleton (later Lupton)—an alumnus of Cambridge University's Emmanuel College[83] —and Anthony John Middleton, worked at the family's manufacturing firm.[84]

Described by Tina Brown as being at the "top level of the legal profession in Leeds",[85] Middleton & Co. existed for over 150 years, closing in 1985.[12] [13] [14]

Michael Middleton's niece, Lucy Middleton, is a London-based solicitor and a godparent of Prince Louis.[86] [87]

Parents of Michael Middleton

Michael Middleton's father was commercial pilot and RAF officer Captain Peter Francis Middleton (1920–2010).[88]

His boyhood in Leeds saw Peter Middleton share a governess with his second cousins, Dr Francis G. H. Lupton (1921–2006) and Arthur Ralph Ransome Lupton (1924–2009), both nephews of Arthur Ransome.[89]

As all three of Middleton's maternal uncles died in the First World War, the family estate, Beechwood, was inherited by his grandfather's younger brother, Arthur Greenhow Lupton (1850–1930), and later controlled by his spinster daughters, Dr Elinor Gertrude Lupton (1886–1979), a Lady Mayoress of Leeds, and Elizabeth Lupton (1888–1977). Francis Lupton's 2001 book, The Next Generation: A Sequel to The Lupton Family in Leeds by C.A. Lupton contains Middleton's memoirs in which he recalls the "even greater ordeal of the annual Beechwood Party, for which I still remember the horrors of trying to tie a black bow tie for my first dinner jacket. Nor will I forget my terror of Lady Bryce", the aunt of his mother's first cousins, sisters Elinor and Elizabeth. Middleton wrote that he was "somewhat in awe" of his unmarried cousins who shared a love of animal husbandry with their friend Princess Mary.[90] [91] [92] The two sisters also shared great-grandparents with Beatrix Potter.[93]

Middleton boarded at Clifton College[94] and then studied English at New College, Oxford.[95] After leaving in 1940 he served as a RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Commissioned as a pilot officer (on probation) in the RAFVR on 9 March 1941, Middleton was confirmed in his rank and promoted to flying officer (war-substantive) on 9 March 1942. In May 1942, he was posted to No 37 Service Flying School in Calgary, Canada where he spent two-and-a-half years as an instructor, training Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster pilots. On 9 March 1943, he received a promotion to flight lieutenant (war-substantive). After joining the reservist 605 Squadron at Manston, near Ramsgate in Kent, in August 1944, Middleton flew a de Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber, nudging the wings of unmanned German V1 flying aircraft to divert them from hitting London. After the war, Middleton joined British European Airways as a pilot, but remained in the reconstituted RAFVR, receiving a reserve commission as a flying officer on 12 August 1949. Promoted to flight lieutenant on 1 March 1951, he relinquished his reserve commission on 12 August 1959.

On a two-month tour of South America in 1962, Prince Philip piloted 49 of the tour's 62 flights with Peter Middleton as his co-pilot, to whom he sent a letter of thanks and a pair of gold cufflinks. British Pathé newsreel captured the two men during the tour. Middleton met his granddaughter's fiancé, Prince William, on his 90th birthday and William attended his funeral in November 2010.[96] [97] [98]

Michael's mother, Valerie (née Glassborow, 1924–2006) was the daughter of bank manager Frederick Glassborow and his wife, Constance (née Robinson). She and her twin sister Mary were born in Marseille and grew up in France. They were bilingual. Valerie attended an English boarding school and later studied at a private secretarial college.[99] [100] Valerie Middleton served as a VAD nurse during the Second World War and in August 2020, in commemoration of the British Red Cross, her granddaughter, Catherine, Princess of Wales, shared a "personal family photo" of her grandmother wearing her British Red Cross uniform.[101] [102]

Valerie Middleton also worked at the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park where a memorial commemorates her work as a code-breaker.[103] [104] [105] Her colleague and friend, Lady Body (née Marion Graham), recalled in 2014 that she had shared a "rather special moment" with Valerie: "Our superior officer, Commander Williams, came into the room smiling and he said, 'Well done, girls. A signal has been intercepted from Tokyo to Geneva and it's the signal that the Japanese are surrendering'. He told us that a message has gone to the King and the Prime Minister but that it could not be announced until Geneva has sent on the message to London".[106]

Grandparents of Michael Middleton

See main article: Lupton family and Martineau family. Trust funds had been established from the fortunes of Michael Middleton's grandmother, heiress Olive Christiana Middleton (1881–1936), a member of the Lupton family.[107] [108] Olive studied at Roedean School[109] [110] and was accepted at the University of Cambridge.[111] She was in the procession of dignitaries accompanying Princess Mary in Headingley in 1927 and on the princess' fundraising committee for the Leeds General Infirmary.[112] [113]

Olive's husband was Leeds-born (Richard) Noël Middleton (1878–1951), who boarded at Clifton College until 1896. Although accepted to study at New College, Oxford, he chose to commence his legal training in Leeds whilst attending law lectures at Victoria University, Leeds.[114] [115]

Middleton "married the aristocrat"—Olive—at the Mill Hill Chapel in Leeds in 1914.[47] [116] In 1919, he retired as a solicitor from the legal practice in Leeds he shared with Sir William Henry Clarke (1861–1930) who had served his clerkship in Leeds with Middleton's father, John William Middleton (1839–1887) [117] and was a City of Leeds councillor alongside Olive's father.[118] [119] [120]

Associated with High Church Anglicanism, members of the Middleton family were close to the Venerable Archdeacon J.B. Seaton (Oxford) who, in 1921, officiated at the funeral of Noël's brother, solicitor Gilbert Middleton, at the wedding of Gilbert's daughter Margaret in Leeds in 1925 and his son Alan's wedding in 1926 at St. Mary Abbots Church, Kensington at which the groomsmen reportedly included Alan's brother John, a Winchester alumni and Christ Church, Oxford graduate in Jurisprudence and their uncle, solicitor Noël Middleton.[121] [122] [123]

Noël Middleton was a co-founder of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and a regular guest at musical soirées at Harewood House, home of Princess Mary, Princess Royal. He was reported in November 1949 as representing the Leeds Musical Festival Committee when conversing with the Princess and her son, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood at the Leeds Civic Hall.[124] [125]

Olive Middleton's family had contributed to the political life of both the UK and to the civic life of Leeds, especially in the areas of education, housing, and public health, for several generations. Her father, Francis Martineau Lupton, was a landowner[126] and lead magistrate who dealt with probate matters for the Leeds and West Riding Court.[127] [128] The 1899 House of Commons Parliamentary Papers record Lupton as being instrumental in establishing a Parliamentary Inquiry into the religious education for dissenting Protestants.[129]

In June 1914, Olive and her sister-in-law Gertrude—"Mrs Middleton and Miss Middleton"—and Olive's second cousin "Miss Lupton" (later Lady Bullock) were reported as guests at the First and Third Trinity Boat Club May Ball.[130] Olive Middleton was close to the Hon. Doris Kitson, daughter of her second cousin, Florence (née von Schunck), and Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale, and attended society balls at their home, Gledhow Hall. During the First World War, the house was converted into a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital run by the Red Cross and the newly married Olive worked there as a nurse with Doris, a fellow Old Roedeanian.[131] Catherine, Princess of Wales visited London's Imperial War Museum in 2018 to read records stating that her great-grandmother was "in residence"—on and off—as a VAD nurse at Gledhow Hall from May 1915 to April 1917.[132] Olive remained involved with the VAD cause for many years.[133] [134]

Olive Middleton supported the Leeds branch of the Association for the Care and Protection of Friendless Girls which her grandmother Frances Lupton (née Greenhow) had helped establish in 1885.[135] [136] Also reportedly supporting the association was another of Frances's granddaughters, Elinor,[137] as well as Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton) and her daughter, the Hon. Mrs Albert Kitson (née Florence von Schunck, later Baroness Airedale), the respective niece and great-niece of Frances.[138]

Olive's brother, Lionel Martineau Lupton (1892–1916) attended Rugby alongside Alan Lomas Middleton,[139] following which he attended Trinity College, Cambridge at the same time as Diana, Princess of Wales's grandfather Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer where both men studied the same subject. They joined up together to fight in the Great War which saw Lionel and his two brothers killed. In April 1917, George V "commanded" that a letter be written to the brothers' father in which the King recognised the exceptional loss of "your gallant" sons.[134] [140] [141] Olive and her family were reportedly invited in 1905 to the "fashionable wedding" at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street of her second cousin Alan Cecil Lupton to Mary, sister of Sir Merrick Burrell, 7th Baronet at which another of Olive's second cousins, Norman Darnton Lupton (1875–1953), acted as best man and his sister Agnes as bridesmaid.[142]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Arms of Miss Catherine Middleton. College of Arms. 16 July 2013. 4 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130604065159/http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/grants/item/8-arms-of-catherine-middleton. live.
  2. Book: Lacey . Robert . Battle of Brothers . 2021 . HarperCollins Publishers . London . 978-0-00-840854-1 . 63 . 2nd . 30 August 2021 . ...this genteel clan that could trace their descent back to Tudor times. . 26 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230426231321/https://books.google.com/books?id=E_3rDwAAQBAJ&dq=baroness+airedale+battle+of+brothers&pg=PT32 . live .
  3. Book: Taylor . T. . The History of Wakefield – The Rectory Manor . 1886 . W. H. Milnes . 302, 305, 335, 368 . 25 September 2021 . ...2nd January 1813, conveyed freehold property extending on the ...to John Middleton of Wakefield, cabinet maker... Ingwell Croft on May 1824, 23 yards to John Middleton...On the 29th December 1843, Ann Middleton [nee Carrington] of Leeds, the widow and William Middleton of Leeds, solicitor, the only son of John Middleton, surrendered the property purchased in 1813 to the use of... . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235633/https://books.google.com/books?id=ln8fAQAAMAAJ&dq=Middleton+John+William+wakefield&pg=PR163 . live .
  4. News: Wilson . N. . William and Kate's links with Yorkshire . 25 September 2021 . York Press . 26 April 2011 . David, who is widowed...is proud of the Middleton clan and the legal business that spawned five generations. . 25 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210925031314/https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/features/features/8992971.william-and-kates-links-with-yorkshire/ . live .
  5. News: Wartime RAF pilot who in peacetime flew for BEA and accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a tour of South America – Obituary – Peter Middleton (1920–2010). The Times. UK. 27 November 2010. 10 August 2015. Peter Francis Middleton was born in Leeds in 1920, the third son of Richard Middleton and Olive Lupton, a family of mill owners and solicitors.. 1 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150901144857/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2823595.ece. live.
  6. News: Funeral of Earl. 19 May 1948. Yorkshire Evening Post. West Yorkshire, England. 25 September 2013. Genes Reunited. Mr. Richard Noel Middleton, retired woollen manufacturer [''William Lupton & Co''.], Park Avenue, Roundhay, said [that on] 05.45 am, on May.... 25 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150925161343/http://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=mr%20noel%20middleton%20earl%20harewood&county=west%20yorkshire%2c%20england&from=1900&to=1949. live.
  7. News: Rayner . Gordon . 'Middle-class' Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George V's coronation . . 13 September 2013 . 24 October 2014 . The relations... were very much landed gentry and we now know that some of them had titles... Baroness Airedale's mother, Baroness von Schunck, was also invited to the coronation of George V...discovered a photo in which members were playing host to Princess Mary, the Queen's aunt. . 26 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160426043340/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10307469/Middle-class-Duchess-of-Cambridges-relative-wore-crown-and-attended-George-Vs-coronation.html . live .
  8. Web site: Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood . National Portrait Gallery . London . 16 May 2021 . On 27th July 1927, at the Headingley Cricket Ground, near Leeds, Princess Mary was photographed as guest of honour at a garden party...Their niece, Olive Middleton (nee Lupton) was also photographed as one of the dignitaries in the procession walking behind Princess Mary. Olive had been on the Princess's fundraising committee for the Leeds Infirmary... . 16 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516054015/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw148114/Princess-Mary-Countess-of-Harewood . live .
  9. News: 1879-08-20 . Marriages: Middleton - Dubs . 2024-04-05 . Glasgow Herald . 1.
  10. Book: Report of the Council – Volume 72 . 1892 . Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society . 72 . 25 . Arthur Middleton, Hawkhills, Chapel Allerton . 19 March 2023 . 26 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230426231319/https://books.google.com/books?id=gEctkrhhMqkC&dq=arthur+Middleton+hawkhills&pg=PA25 . live .
  11. Silson . A. . Oak Leaves (Part Fourteen) – The Mysteries of Gledhow Grange . Oakwood and District Historical Society . Autumn 2014 . . 18 August 2021 . This is indeed the case, and the older building was known as Gledhow Grange. It is this house that is the focus of this article. Confusingly, another demolished detached house had the same name and was only about 500 metres to the south on Gledhow Lane. It was this Gledhow Lane house that was occupied by William Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge's ancestor. Shortly after 1870, Middleton changed the name of his house [Gledhow Grange] to Hawkhills. . 11 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211111025122/http://www.oakwoodchurch.info/Oak%20Leaves%20Part%2014%20-%20Complete%20-%20Final%20Website%20Version%2009-03-2016.pdf . live .
  12. Web site: Reed. Michael. Gledhow Hall. David Poole. 2016. 15 August 2016. A gentleman farmer, William Middleton Esq. had also lived in the area at Gledhow Grange Estate.. 6 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160906103755/https://houseandheritage.org/2016/09/05/gledhow-hall/. live.
  13. Web site: Headrow, Permanent House. Leodis a Photographic Archive of Leeds. City of Leeds UK Gov.. 24 June 2016. The Headrow premises housed Middleton Solicitors until 1985.... 1 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160701130410/http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002627_72555179&DISPLAY=FULL. live.
  14. News: Mr H. D. Middleton. Leeds Mercury. West Yorkshire, England. 19 September 1932. 7 November 2016. Mr. H. D. Middleton. the firm of Middletons, solicitors, of Permanent House, Leeds, which was founded by his grandfather (William Middleton, Esq.) in 1834. He was educated at Charterhouse and University College. Oxford, where he took his M.A. and distinguished himself .... 7 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161107094335/http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=princess%20mary%20chariman%20mr%20h%20d%20middleton&county=west%20yorkshire%2c%20england&from=1883&to=1948. live.
  15. News: Valerie Middleton. 31 October 2016. Yorkshire Post. 23 September 2006. Kate's great-grandfather, Richard Noël Middleton, was a solicitor, a founder of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra.... 31 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161031150531/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/valerie-middleton-1-2390743. live.
  16. News: Wartime RAF pilot who in peacetime flew for BEA and accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a tour of South America – Obituary – Peter Middleton (1920–2010). The Times. UK. 27 November 2010. 10 August 2015. Peter Francis Middleton was born in Leeds in 1920, the third son of Richard Middleton and Olive Lupton, a family of mill owners and solicitors.... 1 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150901144857/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2823595.ece. live.
  17. News: 3 July 1951 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . Genes Re-united . 31 August 2014 . He (Mr R. Noel Middleton) practised as a solicitor in Leeds, but after the First World War joined William Lupton and Co. Ltd., the Leeds and Pudsey woollen manufacturers, of whom (he) became director. . 22 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141022093314/http://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=noel%20middleton%201951%20director%20william%20lupton . live .
  18. News: Sparkes. Matthew. Pictured: Royal couple's grandparents' jet-age meeting. The Daily Telegraph. UK. 22 April 2014. 3 November 2016. Prince Philip was an accomplished pilot, having first taken lessons in 1952, and elected to fly many of the journeys during the tour himself with Peter Middleton Kate Middleton's grandfather as co-pilot.. 7 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140507100743/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10779536/Pictured-Royal-couples-grandparents-jet-age-meeting.html. live.
  19. News: Tominey. Camilla. Truth behind Prince George's love of aviation. UK. Daily Express. 14 February 2016. 19 February 2015. It (the photograph) shows the Duchess of Cambridge's grandfather, Captain Peter Middleton, with Prince Philip in 1962...flew regularly together on 2 month tour of South America.... 20 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180820071010/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/643885/Truth-behind-Prince-George-love-aviation. live.
  20. News: Royal wedding: Kate Middleton's family background. The Daily Telegraph. 4 May 2011. London. Gordon. Rayner. 16 November 2010. 11 March 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110311123054/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8136814/Royal-wedding-Kate-Middletons-family-background.html. live.
  21. Web site: Princess of Wales's parents' party supplies firm sold after brush with insolvency. Sky News. Mark. Kleinman. 18 May 2023. 18 May 2023. 18 May 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230518193400/https://news.sky.com/story/princess-of-waless-parents-party-supplies-firm-sold-after-brush-with-insolvency-12883612. live.
  22. Web site: Decoding Carole Middleton, Britain's Second Most Famous Grandmother . Vogue UK . 14 January 2021 . 15 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210115172220/https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/decoding-carole-middleton-britains-second-most-famous-grandmother . live .
  23. Web site: Gaudoin . Tina . Kate Middleton's family and the Upper Middleton: the traits of Britain's newest, potentially most powerful class . The Standard . 22 January 2023 . 22 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230122051025/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/kate-middleton-s-family-and-the-upper-middleton-the-traits-of-britain-s-newest-potentially-most-powerful-class-10231287.html . live .
  24. Web site: Kate's parents' party firm leaves creditors £2.6m short after collapse . . 10 June 2023 . 9 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230609231037/https://www.independent.co.uk/business/kate-s-parents-party-firm-leaves-creditors-ps2-6m-short-after-collapse-b2353810.html . live .
  25. Web site: Carole Middleton is 'desperately sad' as her party supplies business collapses . . 10 June 2023 . 10 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230610083119/https://www.tatler.com/article/carole-and-michael-middleton-selling-business . live .
  26. Web site: 'Middletons in their £5m home left me high and dry' . . 7 July 2023 . 7 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230707183134/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-middletons-fail-to-repay-debts-after-party-firm-goes-bust-xf887c6j9 . live .
  27. Web site: Statement of administrator's proposal . . 10 June 2023 . 29 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230529112541/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12191766/filing-history . live .
  28. Book: de Vries . S. . Royal Marriages: Diana, Camilla, Kate & Meghan and princesses who did not live happily ever after . 2018 . Pirgos Press . 978-1-925283-64-8 . 7 March 2020 . father of ... Catherine ... Pippa and James ... Michael Middleton is related to several members of the landed gentry and aristocracy of Yorkshire..
  29. http://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2013082014202/prince-george-middletons-family-home-bucklebury/ Why Prince William and Kate Middleton have chosen Bucklebury as Prince George's first home
  30. Book: Lacey . Robert . Battle of Brothers . 2021 . HarperCollins Publishers . London . 978-0-00-840854-1 . 62, 553 . 2nd . 30 August 2021 . (Chapter 6 "Party Pieces" and Source Notes) Michael E. Reed has published his fascinating research into the aristocratic ancestry of the Middleton family in the Telegraph and the Guardian and kindly supplied me with photographs of Baroness Airedale ["a distant ancestor of Michael Middleton" – Chapter 6, page 62] in her costume for the coronation of 1911. . 26 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230426231321/https://books.google.com/books?id=E_3rDwAAQBAJ&dq=baroness+airedale+battle+of+brothers&pg=PT32 . live .
  31. News: Royal wedding: Family tree. BBC News. UK. 13 April 2011. 30 April 2015. He [Richard Noël Middleton] attended Clifton College in Bristol as a boarder before heading to Leeds University and qualifying as a solicitor. He met and married aristocrat Olive Christiana Lupton [Middleton, 1881–1936].. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150405183945/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13050232. live.
  32. News: Rayner. Gordon. How the family of 'commoner' Kate Middleton has been rubbing shoulders with royalty for a century. The Daily Telegraph. UK. 21 June 2013. 31 October 2016. You don't have to go back many generations in her family to find members of the aristocracy and friends of royalty.". 2 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130702202944/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10135251/How-the-family-of-commoner-Kate-Middleton-has-been-rubbing-shoulders-with-royalty-for-a-century.html. live.
  33. News: Christopher. Wilson. The Middletons deserve a title, step forward the Earl and Countess of Fairfax. The Daily Telegraph. UK. 26 July 2013. 24 June 2016. As long ago as 1926, the Middleton family played host to the Queen's aunt, Princess Mary and another relative ... was a friend of George V. 7 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160507093452/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10204690/The-Middletons-deserve-a-title-step-forward-the-Earl-and-Countess-of-Fairfax.html. live.
  34. Web site: Headrow, Permanent House. Leodis a Photographic Archive of Leeds. City of Leeds UK Gov.. 24 June 2016. As Chairman of the Leeds General Infirmary, Henry (Dubs Middleton) had played host to Princess Mary when she visited the Leeds General Infirmary in 1932 (Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer West Yorkshire, England, 26 February; "She (Princess Mary) was escorted by Mr. H. D. Middleton..."). 1 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160701130410/http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002627_72555179&DISPLAY=FULL. live.
  35. Book: Shadbolt. G.. The British Journal of Photography – Volume 87 . 1941 . H. Greenwood . 108 . 29 April 2022 . WILLIAM MIDDLETON. Monks Pond, Lymington – PANCHROMATISM AND TRUTHFULNESS – SIR, – Referring to the article on "Panchromatism and Truthfulness in Reproduction," in your issue of February 16, I have read this with much interest as I ....
  36. Book: Charter, Supplemental Charters, By-laws, and List of Members ... . 1893 . the Institution of Civil Engineers . London . 162, 207, 87, 216 . 29 April 2022 . William Middleton – Associate Member – elected member Dec. 1899 – Chelmsford... Christy Brothers and Middleton, Chelmsford...[Address] Oriel House, Chelmsford....[William Middleton's first cousin] – Robert Carrington Middleton – Sheepscar Foundry – member of Institution...] . 28 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230428172541/https://books.google.com/books?id=aLdMAAAAYAAJ&dq=william+middleton+civil+engineer+institute&pg=RA6-PA167 . live .
  37. News: LYMINGTON WIDOW'S DEATH Five Weeks After Husband's Sudden Passing . 5 September 2020 . Hampshire Advertiser . 25 May 1940 . Five weeks after her husbands death, Mrs. Agnes Clara Middleton. widow of Captain William Middleton, died on Sunday. at her home, Monk's Pond, Waterford-lane, Lymington, aged 76. On April 13 [1940] Captain Middleton collapsed while attending a.....
  38. News: Marriages: Middleton Talbot . Leeds Times . Yorkshire, England . 3 March 1900 . Middleton Talbot, At Mill Hill Chapel on 24 February 1900 William Middleton, [Engineer] 2nd son of John William Middleton, solicitor to Agnes Clara Talbot, elder daughter of Grosvenor Talbot ... [bride's uncle, Sir James Kitson, Bart.] ... . 7 March 2020 . 18 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200718105729/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=births%20%20marriages%20leeds%20%20times%20middleton%20%20talbot&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1899&to=1902 . live .
  39. News: The Late Mr W.D. Cliff . 29 February 2020 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire . England . 6 March 1917 . THE LATE MR. W.D. CLIFF ... Mrs. Grosvenor Talbot, Lord Airedale, the Hon. Mrs. Edward Kitson. the Hon. Miss Hilda Kitson, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cliff. Mr. and Mrs. ... Talbot Cliff, Mr and Mrs W. Middleton, Dr. Griffith ... [Also] Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England 7 October 1937 MRS. GRIFFITH (née Louisa Talbot) died 6 October 1937 at Chapel Allerton, Leeds Colin Griffith (son) [chief mourners included]: Mr. and Mrs. William Middleton (brother-in-law and sister) and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pakenham. Others present were Lord and Lady Airedale [the 2nd Baron Airedale being the first cousin of sisters Mrs. William Middleton (née Agnes Clara Talbot) and Mrs. Griffith (née Louisa Talbot)] ... . 12 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230412001136/https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=clara%20%20talbot%20%20middleton%20griffith%20airedale&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1906&to=1942 . live .
  40. Web site: Frederick William Kitson . fretwell.kangaweb.
  41. Book: Wrathmell . S. . Leeds: Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides . 2005 . . 978-0-300-10736-4 . 207 . ... from the later C19, when the small congregation [of Mill Hill Chapel] was led by the eminent Sir James Kitson, later first Lord Airedale (d. 1911)..
  42. News: The Infirmary Appeal: Princess Royal's Support of Scheme . 31 October 2019 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 1 December 1933 . 3 . The committee was launched by Miss E.G. Lupton ... it was announced that the Princess Royal had agreed to become Patron of the whole Appeal ... serving on the Committee are ... Lady Burton, ... Miss Elinor Lupton ... Mrs Noel Middleton ... Miss J.B. Kitson ... . 16 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200716165654/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=princess%20%20royal%27s%20%20support%20%20for%20%20scheme&county=yorkshire%2C%20england&from=1932&to=1933 . live .
  43. News: Rayner . Gordon . 13 September 2013 . 'Middle-class' Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George V's coronation . . 24 October 2014 . The (Lupton) relations ... were very much landed gentry and we now know that some of them had titles ... Baroness Airedale's mother, Baroness von Schunck, was also invited to the coronation of George V ... . 26 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160426043340/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10307469/Middle-class-Duchess-of-Cambridges-relative-wore-crown-and-attended-George-Vs-coronation.html . live .
  44. Book: Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage: With Her Majesty's Royal Warrant Holders . 1990 . Debrett's Peerage Ltd . Grandchildren of late William Law Pakenham, eldest son of Wellington Montagu Pakenham (infra): Issue of Capt the late Rev ... Clara Talbot Pakenham [née Middleton], who d[ied] 1985, d[aughter] of late William Middleton, of Monks Pond, [died 1940] Lymington: William Thomas Talbot . 978-0-312-04640-8 .
  45. Web site: Philip Naviasky (1894-1983) Three quarter length portrait of Clara Middleton Signed and dated 1921 . 9 January 2024 . auctions.tennants.co.uk . 9 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240109041942/https://auctions.tennants.co.uk/auction/lot/3126-philip-naviasky-1894-1983-three-quarter-length-portrait-of-clara-middleton-signed-and-dated-1921/?lot=2325184&sd=1 . live .
  46. Web site: Reitwiesner . William . Ancestry of Catherine, Princess of Wales Catherine Middleton . New England Historic Genealogical Society . 16 February 2020 . April 2011 . Extracts from the U.K. Decennial Census 1891 Yorkshire, Bilton with Harrowgate [RG12/3521], Page 24 Richard N Middleton Boarder age 12 Scholar Yorks Leeds ... [brother] William [Middleton] age 16 Engineering Student . 9 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110509012343/http://www.wargs.com/royal/kate.html . live .
  47. Book: Joseph . C. . Kate: The Making of a Princess . 2011 . Random House . 7 March 2020 . 6 January 1914, and the great and good of Leeds were gathered at the Mill Hill Unitarian Chapel in the city centre for the wedding of the ... Alderman Francis Martineau Lupton one of four brothers who held office in the town during the nineteenth century was giving away his eldest daughter Olive, 32, a society beauty, to [Richard] Noêl Middleton, 35.... 978-1-907195-35-8 .
  48. News: May . Adam . Prince William and Kate's ancestors 'led parallel lives' as eerie similarities found . 22 August 2022 . Mirror . UK . 21 August 2022 . During her life, Gertrude loved sport, including tennis, just like Kate, and lacrosse on the University of St Andrews' playing fields. . 22 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220822052820/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/prince-william-kates-ancestors-led-27788984 . live .
  49. News: Tominey . Camilla . Duchess of Cambridge's great great aunt was a mental asylum patient – just like Prince William's great-grandmother . 21 August 2022 . The Daily Telegraph . UK . 19 August 2022 . Gertrude was the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge's great-grandfather Noel Middleton, a solicitor, director of the family textile firm and – through his founding of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and his directorship of the Leeds Music Festival – on friendly terms with the Queen's aunt, Princess Mary. A brilliant student, Gertrude completed her schooling at age 18 in 1894 in Scotland at the exclusive ladies boarding school St Leonards School in Fife – modelled on Prince William's alma mater Eton...The school was surrounded by the University of St Andrews...Gertrude was sporty, playing tennis and lacrosse on the university's playing fields as well as golf on the school's own golf course. Gertrude also played piano like the Duchess. . 22 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220922003656/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/19/duchess-cambridges-great-great-aunt-mental-asylum-patient . live .
  50. Web site: 30 June 2021 . Stepping Back In Time – Pickard Properties . 3 January 2024 . pickardproperties.co.uk . 3 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240103110255/https://pickardproperties.co.uk/spinning-acres/development/history/ . live .
  51. Web site: Summer 2021 . THE LODGES OF HEADINGLEY . 9 January 2024 . 31 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210731142315/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58c140216b8f5b630c91e446/t/60fd5adf81015468f0d9e3ba/1627216610042/Lodges+Far+Headingley.pdf . live .
  52. News: Tominey . Camilla . Duchess of Cambridge's great great aunt was a mental asylum patient – just like Prince William's great-grandmother . 21 August 2022 . The Daily Telegraph . UK . 19 August 2022 . Born in 1876 (died on March 15, 1942), Gertrude was the wealthy sister of Noel Middleton, a solicitor, director of the family's textile firm and...She [Gertrude Middleton] continued further study at St Anne's College, Oxford from 1900–1902 where her first cousin Henry Middleton was studying law at Oxford and could therefore act as her chaperone. . 22 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220922003656/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/19/duchess-cambridges-great-great-aunt-mental-asylum-patient . live .
  53. Book: Girdlestone . F. K. W. . Charterhouse School Register 1872–1910 – Volume 2 . Proprietors at the Chiswick Press . 536 . 1 November 2020 . Henry Dubs Middleton, born 18th September 1880...Matriculated Univ. College 1899 [graduate in law 1903]... . 28 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230428172537/https://books.google.com/books?id=6Wo0AQAAMAAJ&q=Henry+Dubs+middleton+1880+Charterhouse . live .
  54. Book: Timmons . A. . Kate Middleton and Prince William . 2019 . The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc . 978-1-5081-8886-5 . 30 . 13 May 2020 . Like most of his ancestors, Peter Middleton attended the prestigious Oxford University (a tradition from which Kate's father, Michael, broke when he opted to go to flight school instead [following graduation from the University of Surrey].
  55. Web site: Naval Officers of World War I . National Portrait Gallery, London . National Portrait Gallery . London . 15 May 2021 . Lupton's relative, Henry Dubs Middleton, was also the Chairman of the Leeds General Infirmary (1928–1932), which had recommended Cope and/or Birley also paint Middleton's portrait. . 15 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210515032437/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00084/Naval-Officers-of-World-War-I . live .
  56. Web site: London National Portrait Gallery Sir Thomas Reedham Berney, 10th Baronet (1893–1975) . 31 January 2022 . London National Portrait Gallery . 21 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211221112327/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait?mkey=mw61680&LinkID=mp61568&role=sit&rNo=0#qcom14621 . live .
  57. Web site: Headrow, Permanent House . 24 June 2016 . Leodis a Photographic Archive of Leeds . City of Leeds UK Gov. . Also a solicitor was Henry Dubs Middleton. ... As Chairman of the Leeds General Infirmary, Henry (Dubs Middleton) had played host to Princess Mary when she visited the Leeds General Infirmary in 1932. ... Keen golfers, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Middleton (died 1964) the daughter of Sir Henry Hanson Berney, 9th Baronet ... . 1 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160701130410/http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002627_72555179&DISPLAY=FULL . live .
  58. News: Hughes . H. . 27 November 2017 . Kate Middleton family tree: Lineage of Prince William's 'commoner' wife MAPPED . . . UK . 9 March 2019 . The solicitor business, Messrs Middleton and Sons, was founded by William Middleton Esq whose descendants include Richard Noël Middleton (the Duchess's great grandfather) and Henry Dubs Middleton, who was chairman of the Leeds General Infirmary. . 24 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190624035019/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/884790/Kate-Middleton-family-tree-Prince-William-wife-lineage-mapped-Royal-family . live .
  59. Web site: Debretts . 20 June 2021 . Debretts . 57 . ...Henry Dubs Middleton, ..., and has issue, Ralph, b. 1908, [d. 1990] – Cecil, b. 1911, [d. 1984] -... . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235634/https://books.google.com/books?id=PNc7AQAAMAAJ&q=cecil++Henry+dubs+Ralph+Middleton+1911++++Leeds . live .
  60. Web site: 2021 . The Headrow, Permanent House and Headrow Buildings . 20 June 2021 . Leodis – Leeds City Council . The 1969 Scottish Law Directory advertises that solicitors David Middleton, his father Alan Lomas Middleton and their cousin Ralph Middleton all held Oxford degrees and headed the law firm, Middletons at Permanent House, 72 The Headrow, Leeds. . 24 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200447/https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/121430 . live .
  61. Book: The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter . 1887 . Law Newspaper Company . en.
  62. Web site: Wood . Michael . The Ancestry of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge . New England Historic Genealogical Society . 4 January 2024 . 2011 . 9 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110509012343/http://www.wargs.com/royal/kate.html . live .
  63. Book: Lee, Helen Bourne Joy . The Joy Genealogy . 1968 . Pequot Press . en . John Middleton Joy (or Joy-Middleton), joined "filtrates"ab 1920. Desc, from the firm's founder through his mother, changed his name from Middleton.
  64. News: FILEY . 20 April 2024 . Bridlington Free Press Yorkshire, England . 1 May 1886 . The solos were taken Mrs Mclntyre, Miss Miss Davison, Miss ..., Miss Lena Mr. Charles Cooper (London). Mr. [Gilbert] Middleton (Leeds), Mr, K. Pym, Mr. W, Foster Smith, and Rev. C Milford, The following choruses from Handel's * Messiah were admirably sung.
  65. News: Mail and Ship News . 20 April 2023 . Leeds Mercury . 16 Apr 1887 . The solos allotted to Mr. Richardson, ...and Mr. Gilbert Middleton (members of St. Chad's choir) were sung very carefully. The unaccompanied quartet: Jesus...was also well rendered....
  66. Book: The Law Journal . 1892 . E.B. Ince . en . MARRIAGES. on Jan. 26 at St Chad's church. Far Headingley, Leeds. Gilbert Middleton, of Leeds, solicitor, to Alice Margaret. second daughter of Wm. Lomas Joy, of Castle Grove, Far Headingley, Leeds..
  67. News: Welch . L. . Inside Princess Kate's intriguing connection to Eton College as George eyes up new school . 28 December 2023 . UK Daily Express . 10 July 2023 . 13 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240113093210/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1789356/kate-middleton-eton-college-prince-george . live .
  68. Web site: The National Archives (UK) – Winchester College . The National Archives Kew . Richmond . 10 February 2022 . John Alfred Middleton-Joy (formerly Middleton) [b. 21 Mar 1895] M.C....[son of solicitor Gilbert Middleton of Leeds]...Winchester 1908–14...Ch.Ch. Oxon 1919, B.A. [According to his entry in the undergraduate progress registers, Middleton was exempted from [[Responsions]] (the first University examination taken shortly before or after matriculation) on account of his performance in school examinations in 1914. He was also exempted from the First Public Examination (which included compulsory examinations in Holy Scripture and Greek and Latin) on account of his service in the First World War. Middleton passed the shortened course in Jurisprudence in 1920. As Judith explained, the shortened courses were specially-designed courses for students who had served in the First World War. So that these men would not be disadvantaged academically by time spent away on military service, the University set up these shorter courses which they could pass in less time than the regular 3-year BA course, but which would still entitle them to a BA degree at the end of it. This was how Middleton was able to proceed to a degree in such a short space of time. His BA was conferred on 10 July 1920.]...in 1921...chairman 'Filtrata' regd. Motor Oils...[with his wife was a] member of Ascot Heath and travelled much...died at his home in London on 14th January, 1975, aged 79. . 11 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220211003714/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=310 . live .
  69. Web site: Leodis – The Headrow, Leeds . UK City of Leeds . 11 February 2022 . Richard Noel Middleton's brother, Gilbert Middleton was also a solicitor at the family firm. He was the president of the Leeds Law Society in 1911. Gilbert's sons, Alan Lomas Middleton (10th Feb, 1893–1970), (Rugby) and John Alfred Middleton (Winchester) went up to Oxford University to read Law... . 24 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200447/https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/121430 . live .
  70. Book: The Near East . 1921 . en . The engagement is announced of John Middleton, younger son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Middleton of Glebe House, Headingley, Leeds and Dorothea, only daughter of the late Thomas Durant Beighton, I.C.S., Member of Bengal Legislative Council . 6 February 2024 . 6 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240206033955/https://books.google.com/books?id=g0AZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA290&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20durant%20Beighton&f=false . live .
  71. Web site: The National Archives (UK) – Winchester College . The National Archives Kew . Richmond . 10 February 2022 . John Alfred Middleton-Joy (formerly Middleton)...[with his wife was a] member of Ascot Heath and travelled much...died at his home in London on 14th January, 1975, aged 79. . 11 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220211003714/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=310 . live .
  72. News: The Princess Royal on Holiday . 10 February 2022 . Leeds Mercury . 22 February 1934 . Leeds Mercury Yorkshire, England 22 Feb 1934 THE PRINCESS ROYAL ON HOLIDAY ... MR. and Mrs. Middleton-Joy are back at their home in Headingley after a short visit to Morocco..IN THE HOTEL DINING ROOM...While at Tangier they stayed at the same hotel as the Princess Royal and Lord Harewood. They were there, in fact, when the Princess joined them at table...at the hotel in Tangier, the Princess and Lord Harewood often used the ordinary hotel rooms, taking all meals in the dining-room with the other guests, joining at table with Lord and Lady Lonsdale. Lady Lonsdale, like the Princess, is recuperating after...when not taking trips into the surrounding country. Following their stay Tangier, Mr. and Mrs. [John Alfred] Middleton-Joy crossed Gibraltar, which is crowded with tourists this year. Mrs. Middleton-Joy is one of the keenest women in Leeds on racing matters — if not the keenest... . 10 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220210041159/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=mrs%20noel%20middleton%20princess%20mary&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1933&to=1937 . live .
  73. Web site: WE REMEMBER ALAN LOMAS MIDDLETON . Imperial War Museums . 30 August 2023 . 2023 . SERVICE British Army Captain Royal Field Artillery Source:3024406 . 30 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230830035100/https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/3024406 . live .
  74. Middleton . Alan Lomas . Yorkshire Ramblers' Club . 11 February 2022 . – Obituary – Richard Noel Middleton (1878–1951) by ALM – [i.e. Alan Lomas Middleton]... Obituary – ALAN LOMAS MIDDLETON – At the time of his death on 19th May, 1970, Alan Middleton was the longest serving member of the Club, a distinction which gave him great pleasure. He became a member in 1912 and was Vice-President 1947–48. He was brought up in a family tradition of fell-walking by his father, Gilbert Middleton, and his uncle, Noel Middleton, both of whom were members of the Club. . The Yorkshire Ramblers' Club . 11 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220211154136/https://www.yrc.org.uk/journal-and-image-archive/journal-selector/yrc-journal-1954-vol-8-no-27/journal-v8n27p73/ . live .
  75. Web site: Leodis – The Headrow, Leeds . UK City of Leeds . 11 February 2022 . Richard Noel Middleton's brother, Gilbert Middleton was also a solicitor at the family firm. He was the president of the Leeds Law Society in 1911. Gilbert's sons, Alan Lomas Middleton (10th Feb, 1893–1970), (Rugby) and John Alfred Middleton (Winchester) went up to Oxford University to read Law. Alan lived at University College and his brother at Christ Church. A talented racing-car driver, John Alfred married...The 1969 Scottish Law Directory advertises that solicitors David Middleton, his father Alan Lomas Middleton and their cousin Ralph Middleton all held Oxford degrees and headed the law firm, Middletons at Permanent House, 72 The Headrow, Leeds. . 24 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200447/https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/121430 . live .
  76. Book: Hunter . A. . Cheltenham College Register – 1841–1889 . 1890 . George Bell and Sons, London . 326 . 29 August 2023 . Gilbert Middleton – son of John William Middleton, Park Row, Leeds....
  77. Book: The Scottish Law Directory for ... . 1969 . W. Hodge . en . Middletons (Alan Lomas Middleton. M.A, (oxon), Ralph Middleton, B.A(oxon), James Walker Booth, O.B.E., M.A., LL.B.(cantab.), Sydney Hallewell Knight, Derek William Gillespie, M.A., (cantab.), and David Middleton, M.A.(oxon)) Permanent House, 72 The Headrow . 15 February 2024 . 15 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240215030422/https://books.google.com/books?hl=ja&id=-_1KAQAAIAAJ&dq=The+Scottish+Law+Directory+middletons+alan+lomas&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=+middletons+ . live .
  78. Web site: MIDDLETON The Telegraph Announcements . 15 December 2023 . announcements.telegraph.co.uk . 15 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215173255/https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/middleton-notices_48405 . live .
  79. News: 3 July 1951 . Genes Re-united . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 31 August 2014 . He (Mr R. Noel Middleton) practised as a solicitor in Leeds, but after the First World War joined William Lupton and Co. Ltd., the Leeds and Pudsey woollen manufacturers, of whom (he) became director. . 22 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141022093314/http://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=noel%20middleton%201951%20director%20william%20lupton . live .
  80. News: 27 November 2010 . Wartime RAF pilot who in peacetime flew for BEA and accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a tour of South America – Obituary – Peter Middleton (1920–2010) . The Times . UK . 10 August 2015 . Peter Francis Middleton was born in Leeds in 1920, the third son of Richard Middleton and Olive Lupton, a family of mill owners and solicitors... . 1 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150901144857/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2823595.ece . live .
  81. Book: Lacey . Robert . Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the inside story of a family in tumult . 2020 . William Collins . 978-0-00-840852-7 . London . A distant ancestor of Michael [Middleton's] was Baroness Airedale, present at the 1911 coronation of King George V. The Middletons could trace their descent to Tudor times, while their money went back to Yorkshire wool production during the Industrial Revolution. Shrewdly invested through a variety of trusts, the inheritance had cushioned the family for generations. . 21 October 2020 . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235649/https://books.google.com/books?id=E_3rDwAAQBAJ&q=brothers+at+war++Lacey . live .
  82. Web site: Archive - Royal Russell School . 11 January 2024 . www.royalrussell.co.uk . Kate's Family : School Benefactors . 11 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240111132948/https://www.royalrussell.co.uk/discover/community/old-russellians/archive . live .
  83. Book: Beachcroft . S. . Clifton College Register, 1862 to 1962 . 1962 . Clifton College . Bristol, England . 282 . Lupton, Christopher Maurice (formerly MIDDLETON, C. M.)...Emmanuel, Camb. [University of Cambridge, 1934–36]; Leeds Univ., Textile Industries Dept.; 1939 War, S / Capt... . 14 May 2021 . 12 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230412012001/https://books.google.com/books?id=T8NKAAAAYAAJ&q=clifton+college+christopher+middleton+Lupton++emmanuel . live .
  84. Book: Joseph . C. . Kate: The Making of a Princess . 2011 . Mainstream Publishing . 978-1-907195-35-8 . Tony [Anthony] worked with his father Noel and brother Christopher at the family [wool manufacturing] firm William Lupton & Co . 6 May 2021 . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235646/https://books.google.com/books?id=eSLbxXJdINIC&q=anthony+middleton+wool+manufacturer+claudia+joseph . live .
  85. Book: Brown . Tina . The Palace Papers . 2022 . Cornerstone (Penguin) . LXXVI . 9 May 2022 . 978-1-5291-5666-9 . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235639/https://books.google.com/books?id=so5FEAAAQBAJ&dq=tina+brown+the+palace+papers+leeds+Middleton+legal&pg=PR76 . live .
  86. Web site: E.. Saunders. Pippa Middleton's High Society Guest List. UK Mirror 20. May 2017. Kate's (first) cousin is a London-based solicitor. 2 April 2018. 24 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180524093428/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-pippa-middleton-guest-list-10394216. live.
  87. News: Furness . H. . Prince Louis' six godparents announced by Duke and Duchess of Cambridge . UK . The Daily Telegraph . 9 July 2018 . 30 September 2018 . 11 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180911042043/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/09/duke-duchess-cambridge-announce-six-godparents-prince-louis/ . live .
  88. Web site: McClure. Matt. Hope and glory: Air war vet looks to reminisce with Kate Middleton. Calgary Herald. 7 April 2011. 14 March 2016. Greig worked alongside Kate Middleton's grandfather, Capt. Middleton, training pilots.. 14 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160314190902/http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/royals/Hope+glory+looks+reminisce+with+Kate+Middleton/5055074/story.html.
  89. Book: Joseph . C. . Kate: The Making of a Princess . January 2011 . Random House . 978-1-907195-35-8 . They (Peter Middleton and his sister) had a governess, who taught them with their second cousin Francis, the eldest son of Hugo Lupton and Joyce Ransome. ... my mother taught me for a while, but I later shared a governess with my (Francis's) cousins, Peter and Margaret Middleton..
  90. News: Joseph . Claudia . We kid you not! Kate really does descend from goat breeders (but very posh ones) . 8 March 2022 . Daily Express . UK . 6 March 2022 . 8 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220308000636/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1576303/kate-middleton-news-duchess-of-cambridge-genealogy-ancestors-goat-farmers . live .
  91. News: Gutterridge . N. . Kate's hero relative died at the Somme after signing up to fight alongside Diana's grandad . 8 July 2019 . Daily Express . UK . 2 July 2016 . Kate's grandfather Captain Peter Middleton who was Lieutenant Lupton's nephew later described his death in a family history book. . 8 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190708013156/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/685413/Kate-Middleton-Duchess-of-Cambridge-Battle-of-the-Somme . live .
  92. Web site: Lupton . Francis . The Next Generation: A Sequel to The Lupton Family in Leeds by C.A. Lupton by Francis Lupton 2001 . Wm Harrison and Sons . 2001 . 8 July 2019 . 31 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210831141238/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lupton_family_crest.jpg . live .
  93. News: Walker . Tim . 22 July 2014 . Duchess of Cambridge is related to Beatrix Potter . 8 . . 3 August 2014 . 16 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190616211600/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/10980599/Kate-Middleton-is-related-to-Beatrix-Potter.html . live .
  94. News: Llewellyn Smith . J. . Why we should all be grateful the Middletons . 8 July 2019 . The Daily Telegraph . UK . 27 July 2013 . In contrast, Mike Middleton comes from a line of wealthy Yorkshire wool merchants, whose trust fund enabled him to send his three children to public school. His grandfather was a solicitor, his father (Peter) a pilot. All three generations boarded at Clifton College in Bristol. . 24 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190124224321/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10206085/Why-we-should-all-be-grateful-the-Middletons.html . live .
  95. News: Obituary Peter Francis Middleton . 19 August 2019 . The Times . UK) . 27 November 2010 . Peter Francis Middleton was born in Leeds in 1920, the third son of Richard ... College, Bristol before gaining a place at Oxford New College to study English. . 19 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190819000928/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-middleton-fh6k6q97wnj . live .
  96. News: Sparkes . Matthew . Pictured: Royal couple's grandparents' jet-age meeting . . 22 April 2014 . 31 August 2014 . 7 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140507100743/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10779536/Pictured-Royal-couples-grandparents-jet-age-meeting.html . live .
  97. News: Wartime RAF pilot who in peacetime flew for BEA and accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a tour of South America – Obituary – Peter Middleton (1920–2010). The Times. UK. 27 November 2010. 10 August 2015. Peter Middleton's first close encounter with the Royal Family was when he acted as First Officer to the Duke of Edinburgh on a two-month flying tour of South America that Prince Philip made in 1962. The second was at his 90th birthday in September when he met Prince William, who was about to become engaged to his granddaughter Kate...The Duke piloted 49 of the tour's 62 flights, often with Middleton by his side... (The Duke later sent Middleton) a letter of thanks and a pair of gold cufflinks.... 1 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150901144857/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2823595.ece. live.
  98. Web site: Rayner. Gordon. How the family of 'commoner' Kate Middleton has been rubbing shoulders with royalty for a century. UK. The Daily Telegraph. 21 June 2013. 10 August 2015. In 1962 the Duchess's grandfather Peter Middleton, an airline pilot, acted as first officer to the Duke of Edinburgh on a two-month flying tour of South America. ... He (Peter Middleton) passed away in 2010 at the age of 90 and both Kate and Prince William attended his funeral. 2 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130702202944/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10135251/How-the-family-of-commoner-Kate-Middleton-has-been-rubbing-shoulders-with-royalty-for-a-century.html. live.
  99. News: Toua . M. . Kate Middleton family: Inside the story of Kate's incredible code-breaking grandmother . 8 August 2020 . Daily Express . UK . 4 August 2020 . The bilingual sisters grew up in France and attended an English boarding school and later studied at a private secretarial college... . 7 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200807210418/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1318387/Kate-Middleton-family-grandmother-valerie-Middleton-red-cross-code-breaker-Bletchley-Park . live .
  100. Web site: Reitwiesner . W. . The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton . New England Historic Genealogical Society . 8 August 2020 . 2011 . Valerie Glassborow, b. 3 rue Giay Bompard, Marseille, 5 Jan. 1924 [birth registered with the British Consul General at Marseille, entry no. 203] . 9 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110509012343/http://www.wargs.com/royal/kate.html . live .
  101. News: Toua . M. . Kate Middleton family: Inside the story of Kate's incredible code-breaking grandmother . 8 August 2020 . Daily Express . UK . 4 August 2020 . Kate, Duchess of Cambridge shared a personal family photo in commemoration, showing the Duchess's grandmother, Valerie Middleton, serving as a Voluntary Aid Detachment with the British Red Cross during World War II. The photo shows Valerie wearing her nurses' uniform alongside her colleagues of the time. . 7 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200807210418/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1318387/Kate-Middleton-family-grandmother-valerie-Middleton-red-cross-code-breaker-Bletchley-Park . live .
  102. News: Ward . Victoria . Duchess hails Red Cross as part of her family . 6 August 2020 . The Daily Telegraph . UK . 4 August 2020 . The Duchess, 38, wrote ... in a personal letter sent to 150 "outstanding" Red Cross staff and volunteers, the Royal [Duchess] highlighted her own family ties with the organisation...[the Duchess's great-grandmother] Mrs. Middleton, nee Lupton became a nurse working at Gledhow Hall, in Leeds, home to her second cousin, Baroness Airedale ... The Duchess revealed that her paternal grandmother [Valerie Middleton] served in a Voluntary Aid Detachment with the British Red Cross ... . 26 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211226061321/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2020/08/03/duchess-cambridge-reveals-red-cross-nurse-past-grandmother/ . live .
  103. News: Furness . H. . Kate meets the codebreakers: Duchess of Cambridge tells of her sadness over her grandmother's secret Bletchley Park life . The Daily Telegraph . UK . 14 May 2019 . 20 May 2019 . The 37-year-old opened up as she visited the estate near Milton Keynes on Tuesday to see a new exhibition celebrating the role codebreakers played in the D-Day landings almost 75 years ago. ... she was shown a memorial containing the name of her father's mother and great-aunt, who also worked at Bletchley. . 17 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190517011934/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2019/05/14/kate-meets-codebreakers-proud-duchess-cambridge-tells-sadness/ . live .
  104. Book: Smith . M. . The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories . Aurum Press. 8 January 2015 . 20 May 2019. 978-1-78131-389-3 .
  105. News: Duchess Kate visits WWII codebreaking site where grandmother worked . Eun Kyung . Kim . . 18 June 2014 . 18 June 2014 . 3 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140703130104/http://www.today.com/style/duchess-kate-visits-wwii-codebreaking-site-where-grandmother-worked-1D79818407 . live .
  106. News: Singh. Anita. Duchess of Cambridge learns grandmother's wartime past. UK. The Daily Telegraph. 18 June 2014. 7 August 2015. 'Well done, girls. A signal has been intercepted from Tokyo to Geneva and it's the signal that the Japanese are surrendering ... (he) did say a message has gone to the King and the Prime Minister but it cannot be announced until Geneva has sent on the message to London .... 27 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150727035018/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10910188/Duchess-of-Cambridge-learns-grandmothers-wartime-past.html. live.
  107. Book: Harris . Carolyn . Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting . 8 April 2017 . Dundurn . 978-1-4597-3571-2 . Income from the trust established from the fortunes of Michael's grandmother, wool manufacturing heiress Olive Lupton, ... . 19 October 2017.
  108. Web site: Potternewton Hall, entrance gates . Leodis . In 1921, Mrs Olive Middleton and her sister, Miss Anne Lupton, inherited both the woollen cloth manufacturing business from their father, Francis Martineau Lupton, and a stake in another firm, the New Briggate Arcade Company. The company had been formed in the late 19th Century to build a new shopping and entertainment centre in Leeds city centre - The Grand Arcade - on land owned by the Lupton family since the 18th century. By 1925, the New Briggate Development Company owned a half share in the Newton Hall/Potternewton Hall Estate which was owned by the Lupton family. . 16 January 2024 . 16 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240116112229/https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/114184 . live .
  109. Web site: Roedean's Royal Connection – Olive Middleton (Lupton 1896–1900) . . 18 December 2018 . 12 .
  110. Book: Maclaran. Pauline. Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture. 2015. University of California Press. 978-0-520-96214-9. 259. 4 March 2018. Olive ... was a society beauty educated at Roedean School, one of the top ....
  111. News: Elliot. Chris. Revealed: How Meghan Markle's ancestry was shaped by Cambridge. 4 March 2018. Cambridge News. 24 January 2018. Olive Middleton was accepted into Newnham College (University of Cambridge) in 1900, where her sister Anne later studied .... 4 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172543/https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/megham-markle-harry-cambridge-university-14196195. live.
  112. Web site: Garden Party, Headingley Cricket Ground . Leodis – Leeds City Council . 19 May 2021 . The Princess carries an impressive bouquet of carnations and trailing fern and is escorted by former Leeds Lord Mayor Sir Edwin Airey, of the building company, William Airey and Son Leeds Ltd. The Lady Mayoress, Isabella Lupton escorts the Princess's husband, Viscount Lascelles, who is behind his wife. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Hugh Lupton, Lady Clarke and Mrs R.X. [N.] Middleton bring up the rear of the procession. . 16 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516232110/https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/94731 . live .
  113. Web site: Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood . National Portrait Gallery . London . 16 May 2021 . On 27th July 1927, at the Headingley Cricket Ground, near Leeds, Princess Mary was photographed as guest of honour at a garden party...Their niece, Olive Middleton (nee Lupton) was also photographed as one of the dignitaries in the procession walking behind Princess Mary. Olive had been on the Princess's fundraising committee for the Leeds Infirmary and her husband, Noel Middleton, had co-founded the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra with both the Princess and her son George Lascelles as patrons. . 16 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516054015/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw148114/Princess-Mary-Countess-of-Harewood . live .
  114. Web site: The Headrow, Permanent House and Headrow Buildings . Leodis – Leeds City Council . 2021 . 20 June 2021 . 24 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200447/https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/121430 . live .
  115. News: Royal wedding: Family tree. BBC News. UK. 13 April 2011. 30 April 2015. He [Leeds-born R. Noel Middleton] attended Clifton College in Bristol as a boarder before heading to Leeds University and qualifying as a solicitor. He met and married aristocrat Olive Lupton.. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150405183945/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13050232. live.
  116. News: Royal wedding: Family tree. BBC News. UK. 13 April 2011. 30 April 2015. He (R. Noel Middleton) attended Clifton College in Bristol as a boarder before heading to Leeds University and qualifying as a solicitor. He met and married aristocrat Olive Lupton.. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150405183945/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13050232. live.
  117. The Solicitor's Journal 19 February 1887 . The Solicitor's Journal . 1887 . 31 . 273 . 15 December 2020 . Second Class Honours – William Henry Clarke who had served his clerkship with Mr John William Middleton of Leeds . 12 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230412012003/https://books.google.com/books?id=5QVRAQAAIAAJ&dq=sir+william+henry+clarke+Leeds+law&pg=PA273 . live .
  118. Book: Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, Volume 94 . 1930 . Justice of the Peace, Limited . 15 August 2019 . Sir William Henry Clarke, until recently coroner for Leeds, and a solicitor of that city, died on Saturday last, after a long illness, at his home, Ladywell House, Roundhay, in his sixty-ninth year. He was a member of the city council from 1895 to ....
  119. News: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE PARTNERSHIP heretofore subsisting between us, the underpinned, WILLIAM HENRY CLARKE and RICHARD NOEL MIDDLETON . 15 August 2019 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . Yorkshire, England . 27 September 1919 . ...said William Henry Clarke. And such business will be carried on the by the said William Henry Clarke, and the said Richard Noel Middleton having retired from practice as a Solicitor ... witnessed this ... day of September, 1919. WILLIAM HENRY CLARKE ... R. NOEL MIDDLETON ... . Genes Reunited . 16 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200716162801/https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=clarke%20%20noel%20%20middleton&county=yorkshire,%20england . live .
  120. Book: Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage, with the Knightage, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . 1931 . 1306 . 15 March 2023 . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235651/https://books.google.com/books?id=cTcaAQAAMAAJ&q=sir+william+henry+clarke+1930+coroner+Leeds . live .
  121. Web site: The National Archives (UK) – Winchester College . The National Archives Kew . Richmond . 10 February 2022 . John Alfred Middleton-Joy (formerly Middleton) [b. 21 Mar 1895] M.C....[son of solicitor Gilbert Middleton of Leeds]...Winchester 1908–14...[2nd XI opening batsman...team substitute Eton Match 1914]...Ch.Ch. Oxon 1919, B.A. [According to his entry in the undergraduate progress registers, Middleton was exempted from [[Responsions]] (the first University examination taken shortly before or after matriculation) on account of his performance in school examinations in 1914. He was also exempted from the First Public Examination (which included compulsory examinations in Holy Scripture and Greek and Latin) on account of his service in the First World War. Middleton passed the shortened course in Jurisprudence in 1920. As Judith explained, the shortened courses were specially-designed courses for students who had served in the First World War. So that these men would not be disadvantaged academically by time spent away on military service, the University set up these shorter courses which they could pass in less time than the regular 3-year BA course, but which would still entitle them to a BA degree at the end of it. This was how Middleton was able to proceed to a degree in such a short space of time. His BA was conferred on 10 July 1920.]...in 1921...chairman 'Filtrata' regd. Motor Oils...[with his wife was a] member of Ascot Heath and travelled much...died at his home in London on 14th January, 1975, aged 79. . 11 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220211003714/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=310 . live .
  122. News: Funeral.... 24 November 2022. Leeds Mercury Yorkshire, England 13 Jul 1921 – LATE MR, G. MIDDLETON – Gilbert Middleton, of Glebe House, Hollin-lane, Headingley, a member of the firm of Middleton and Sons, solicitors, Leeds. The service in the church was choral, and the Venerable Archdeacon J. B. Seaton (principal of Cuddesdon Theological College [Oxford]) officiated at the...[Also] Leeds Mercury, Yorkshire, England, 2 January 1925 * * * WEDDING IN LEEDS – Miss Margaret Joyce Middleton, elder daughter of tho late Mr. Gilbert Middleton and Mrs. Middleton, [of] Glebe House, Far Headingley,...[at St Chad's Church, Far Headingley (Leeds)]...The officiating clergy were the Rev. J. B. Seaton (Oxford) and the Rev. C. C. Marshall...bridesmaids wore... Miss Mary Middleton (sister).... 24 November 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221124114129/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=gilbert%20middleton%20%20canon%20driver&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1913&to=1916. live.
  123. News: Wedding... . 25 February 2023 . Leeds Mercury Yorkshire, England . 11 February 1926 . [The Bridegroom, Alan Lomas Middleton]...Archdeacon Seaton, Principal of Cuddesdon College [Oxford]...The groomsmen were...Mr. S. T..., Mr. Noel Middleton and Mr. John Middleton. . 25 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230225081347/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=averil%20%20middleton&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1923&to=1927 . live .
  124. News: Leeds Reception to Lord and Lady Harewood . 28 May 2021 . The Yorkshire Post (and Leeds Mercury) . front page . 23 November 1949 . The Princess Royal and others in her party....Among others presented were Sir William and Lady Cartwright...Mr R. Noel Middleton (Leeds Musical Festival Committee)...Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra Concert – Lord Harewood [George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood] indicated that he might visit Leeds next Saturday to hear the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra's concert....
  125. Web site: Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood . National Portrait Gallery . London . 16 May 2021 . On 27th July 1927, at the Headingley Cricket Ground, near Leeds, Princess Mary was photographed as guest of honour at a garden party...Their niece, Olive Middleton (nee Lupton) was also photographed as one of the dignitaries in the procession walking behind Princess Mary. Olive had been on the Princess's fundraising committee for the Leeds Infirmary and her husband, Noel Middleton, had co-founded the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra with both the Princess and her son George Lascelles as patrons...Noel Middleton had attended soirees at Harewood House . 16 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516054015/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw148114/Princess-Mary-Countess-of-Harewood . live .
  126. News: Elliot. Chris. Revealed: How Meghan Markle's ancestry was shaped by Cambridge. 4 March 2018. Cambridge News. 24 January 2018. Olive (Middleton's) father was landowner Francis Martineau Lupton.... 4 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172543/https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/megham-markle-harry-cambridge-university-14196195. live.
  127. Web site: Leeds Grammar School Admission Books: From 1820 to 1900, Volume 14 – Francis Martineau Lupton . J. Whitehead and son. 1906 . 2 January 2019 . (Born) Potternewton Hall, nr Leeds, 21 July 1848, ... J.P. for Leeds and the West Riding . 148.
  128. Book: The County Councils, Municipal Corporations, and Local Authorities Companion, Magisterial Directory, and Local Government Year Book for ... . Kelly's Directories . 1914 . 1049 . ... F.J. Kitson, F.M. Lupton ... . 14 September 2020 . 24 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112144/https://books.google.com/books?id=aqsHAQAAMAAJ&q=magistrate+francis++Martineau++Lupton . live .
  129. Web site: Parliamentary Papers: 1850–1908, Volume 71 . Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons H.M. Stationery Office . 15 December 2018 . ... of such dissenting protestants ... at the date of the Inquiry were Sir James Kitson, Baronet, M.P., and Messrs. W.D. Cliff, F.M. Lupton, A.G. Lupton and H. Lupton. . 1899 . 24 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112144/https://books.google.com/books?id=SxhEAQAAMAAJ&q=sir++james++Kitson++bart++Lupton#v=snippet&q=sir%20%20james%20%20Kitson%20%20bart%20%20Lupton&f=false . live .
  130. News: CLOSE OF MAY WEEK . 16 August 2020 . Cambridge Independent Press . Cambridgeshire, England . 19 June 1914 . 9 . Successful College Balls and Concerts. ROUND OF GAIETIES....addition to the number of May Week visitors, and the various college concerts and balls, as well the outdoor events...attended by...Trinity College First and Third Boat Club Ball... Miss Darnton...Miss Davidson...Miss Lonsdale, Miss Lucas, Miss Lupton...Miss Martin, Miss Maloney, Mrs Middleton, Miss Middleton, Miss Marquis...Lady Napier... . 12 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211212214423/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=close%20of%20may%20week%20miss%20lucas&from=1912&to=1916 . live .
  131. News: Kuttner . Julia . 13 November 2018 . Kate Middleton: How duchess's great grandmother lied to serve as nurse in WW1 . Daily Express . UK . 13 November 2018 . History teacher Michael Reed, from Melbourne, Australia, said: "The Australian grandson of Baroness Airedale gave me a photo of Kate Middleton's great-grandmother, Olive Middleton, in her Red Cross nursing uniform in 1915 (at the Baroness's home, Gledhow Hall). . 13 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181113154429/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1044624/Kate-Middleton-great-grandmother-world-war-1-nurse . live .
  132. Web site: Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale . 2021 . 25 September 2021 . London's National Portrait Gallery . Olive Middleton was close to her Airedale cousins, attending society balls at Gledhow. Later, during the First World War, the house was converted into a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital run by the Red Cross and the newly married Olive worked there as a nurse with her second cousin Doris, a fellow old Roedeanian". The Duchess of Cambridge (née Catherine Middleton) visited London's Imperial War Museum in 2018 to read records stating that her great-grandmother Olive Middleton was "in residence" – on and off – as a VAD nurse at Gledhow Hall from May 1915 to April 1917. . 25 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210925070017/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp75142/albert-ernest-kitson-2nd-baron-airedale-of-gledhow . live .
  133. News: V.A.D.'s Help For Leeds Infirmary . 4 October 2019 . Leeds Mercury . 14 June 1934 . The grounds of Quarry Dene home of [former Leeds Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress] Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Kitson hosted a garden party to support the V.A.D.'s help ... guests Mr. and Mrs. Noel Middleton ... Col. and Mrs. E. Kitson Clark ... Lady Moynihan were also there. . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235639/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=mrs%20noel%20%20middleton&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1914&to=1949 . live .
  134. News: Gutteridge. Nick. PICTURED: Kate's great grandmother and her own extraordinary contribution to Britain's war. Daily Express. UK. 2 July 2016. 9 July 2016. She (Olive Middleton, née Lupton) grew up in opulent surroundings at the family's ancestral seat of Potternewton Hall Estate, near Leeds in Yorkshire, after being born into one of the pre-eminent families of her time ... she (Olive Middleton) volunteered to work as a nurse at the sprawling estate of her second cousin Baroness Airedale, Gledhow Hall. 21 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191021031706/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/685616/Duchess-Cambridge-Kate-Middleton-great-grandmother-Olive-nurse-First-World-War. live.
  135. News: COINCIDENCE . 19 February 2022 . Leeds Mercury . 9 February 1935 . ...the Association for the Care and Protection of... started 50 years ago through the efforts of...Mrs. Francis Lupton and Mrs F.W. Kitson. At today's jubilee... . 19 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220219030242/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=the%20hon%20mrs%20albert%20kitson&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1908&to=1911 . live .
  136. Web site: Murdock . J. Paul . The Middletons, the Luptons and HRH The Duchess of Cambridge . A ROYAL HERALDRY . Weebly 2020 . 29 September 2020 . Olive also served on the Leeds branch of the Ladies Association for the Care of Friendless Girls with her cousin, Baroness von Schunck, née Kate Lupton . 9 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171009194313/https://aroyalheraldry.weebly.com/ . live .
  137. News: Friendless Girls . 19 February 2022 . Leeds Mercury . 27 January 1932 . ...annual meeting of the Leeds Ladies Association for the Care and Protection of Friendless Girls was held at Miss Elinor G. Lupton's house, Beechwood, Elmete....presenting the annual report, Mrs F.J. Kitson... . 31 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211231021717/https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=beechwood%20%20martineau%20%20lupton&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1909&to=1948&page=1 . dead .
  138. News: 12 October 1909 . Friends of Friendless Girls . Leeds Mercury . 19 February 2022 . ...for the Protection and Care of Friendless Girls. The Lady Mayoress ...and on the platform were Mrs H Currer Briggs, the Hon. Mrs Albert Kitson [daughter of Baroness von Schunck and later Baroness Airedale]... . 19 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220219030242/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=the%20hon%20mrs%20albert%20kitson&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1908&to=1911 . live .
  139. News: Field Artillery . 4 September 2023 . Sheffield Daily Telegraph . 4 May 1912 . Sheffield's Progress. Field Artillery.—...Alan Lomas Middleton (late Cadet, Lance-Corporal Rugby School Contingent, Junior Division Officers' Training Corps) to be Second-Lieutenant...Lionel Martineau Lupton [Rugby School, brother of Olive Middleton] . 4 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230904024810/https://www.findmypast.com.au/search-newspapers/results?keywords=rugby%20&names=alan%20lomas%20middleton&sid=107 . live .
  140. News: Gutteridge. Nick. Kate's hero relative died at the Somme after signing up to fight alongside Diana's grandad. Daily Express. 2 July 2016. 2 July 2016. Lieutenant Lupton attended Trinity College, Cambridge at the same time as Princess Diana's grandfather Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, where both men studied the same subject. After studying together between 1910 and 1913 the two men enrolled at the same time to play their part in the war effort ... Both of Lieutenant Lupton's brothers the Duchess' other great, great, uncles were also killed during the First World War .... 16 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200716173734/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/685413/Kate-Middleton-Duchess-of-Cambridge-Battle-of-the-Somme?_ga=1.134971059.315900459.1467429797. live.
  141. News: Low . V. . Duchess of Cambridge moved by her family's own Private Ryan story . The Times . UK . 1 November 2018 . 2 November 2018 . 'I am commanded by King George V to convey to you His Majesty's ... the death in battle of your gallant son Major F. A. Lupton,' ... . 2 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181102025509/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/duchess-of-cambridge-moved-by-her-family-s-own-private-ryan-story-tmmjq8v7c . live .
  142. Web site: The Duchess of Cambridge views family letters from the First World War . The Royal Household . 19 August 2023 . 2018 . Their sister Olive, who worked as a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, is The Duchess of Cambridge's great-grandmother. She married Lieutenant Richard Noel Middleton, who also corresponded with the family during the war. ...This telegram from Noel Middleton to the family, informs that Francis' body had been found: "Bad News Francis Body Found Near Taylor's Killed Instantaneously Bomb Saw Norman [Darnton Lupton] Yesterday And Grave In Churchyard" . 19 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230819053819/https://www.royal.uk/duchess-cambridge-views-family-letters-first-world-war . live .
  143. Book: Joseph. Claudia. Kate The Making of a Princess. Random House. 11 January 2011. 25 June 2017. The whole family used to gather at Beechwood, the Lupton family's old seat, where Olive's father Francis had .... (Chapter 8). 978-1-907195-35-8. 24 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112155/https://books.google.com/books?id=eSLbxXJdINIC&q=Lupton+family+seat+beechwood&pg=PT60. live.
  144. Book: Burke's Peerage Second World War Edition . Burke's Peerage . 4 January 2019 . 2944 . ...Edward, Baron von Schunck (b. 31 Jan. 1816) married Kate (1833–1913) 26 March 1867, daughter of Darnton Lupton of Harehills... . 14 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200714053343/https://www.burkespeerage.com/search_results.php?results=7 . live .
  145. Web site: Leodis a Photographic Archive of Leeds. Elmete Lane, Beechwood, aerial view. UK Leeds City Council. 30 April 2015. By 1870, Francis Lupton Esq. owned both the Potternewton Hall/Newton Hall (Park) Estate and Beechwood ... As landed gentry, Beechwood typically provided for the Lupton family's enjoyment of polo, hunting and tennis.. 16 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200716154632/http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceId%5Centifier=2008522_166776. live.
  146. News: Rayner . Gordon . 'Middle-class' Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George V's coronation . . 13 September 2013 . 24 October 2014 . The (Lupton) relations ... were very much landed gentry and we now know that some of them had titles ... Baroness Airedale's mother, Baroness von Schunck, was also invited to the coronation of George V ... . 26 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160426043340/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10307469/Middle-class-Duchess-of-Cambridges-relative-wore-crown-and-attended-George-Vs-coronation.html . live .
  147. Web site: Leodis a Photographic Archive of Leeds. Gledhow Hall, Sir James Kitson. UK Gov. City of Leeds. 10 March 2015. Leeds politician, Francis Martineau Lupton, (who) was the first cousin of Lady Airedale's mother Baroness von Schunck (nee Kate Lupton). Francis Martineau Lupton was the great-great-grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales.. 20 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141220201405/http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002913_84563846&DISPLAY=FULL. live.
  148. Book: Reed . Michael E. . A Regal Yorkshire Family Tree – Blood Relations: The Barons Airedale and the Middleton Family . 2020 . J. G. K. Nevett . 978-0-6488626-0-4 . 6 . ...across the road at Beechwood were running a marginally smaller establishment; six servants inside (with an additional seventh servant, including a "lady's maid" according to the 1891 census) and the usual outside staff; gardeners, coachmen, grooms and a farm bailiff all living in separate cottages on the estate . 30 September 2020 . 24 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112122/https://books.google.com/books?id=lN6RzQEACAAJ . live .
  149. Web site: Bradford. E.. They Lived In Leeds Francis Martineau Lupton. May 2014. The Thoresby Society, The Leeds Library, Leeds. 25 August 2017. 25 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170825102242/http://www.thoresby.org.uk/content/people/lupton.php. live.
  150. News: Rayner. Gordon. How the family of 'commoner' Kate Middleton has been rubbing shoulders with royalty for a century. The Daily Telegraph. UK. 23 June 2013. 28 March 2017. 2 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130702202944/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10135251/How-the-family-of-commoner-Kate-Middleton-has-been-rubbing-shoulders-with-royalty-for-a-century.html. live.
  151. Web site: Elmete Lane, Beechwood, aerial view . Leodis A photographic Archive of Leeds . 20 July 2013 . 9 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131109012226/http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2008522_166776&DISPLAY=FULL . live .
  152. News: Laycock. M.. Duchess of Cambridge's links with stately home near York revealed. York Press. 17 March 2015. 24 March 2018. 2 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132833/http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11860310.Kate_s_links_to_North_Yorkshire_revealed/. live.
  153. Web site: Penraevon- Newton Park Estate . 2 August 2016 . Happenupon . 9 November 2020 . ...[Name of ] Mrs O.C. Middleton at the top [of the map, circa 1920]. She [Olive Middleton] is registered as the co-owner of the buildings (Rockland and its garages) and its surrounding acres with her sister Miss A.M. Lupton. Mrs O.C. Middleton had married Richard Noel Middleton (died 1951) in 1914. . 17 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201117034120/http://www.penraevon.co.uk/newton-park-estate/ . live .
  154. Web site: Rockland, St Mary's Road; home of Francis Martineau Lupton and daughter Olive Middleton . leodis . 16 January 2024 . 21 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231021034324/https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/103813 . live .
  155. News: Open Gardens, Beechwood, Elmete Lane, Roundhay, Courtesy of The Misses Lupton, (20 July 1952) – Cups of tea available. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 19 August 2015. 3 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151003211528/http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=beechwood%20lupton%20%20roundhay&page=3. live.
  156. Web site: Death of Major A.M.Lupton. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 25 November 1929. The death occurred in his residence at Chapeltown Road on Saturday of Major Arthur Michael Lupton, M.C., son Mr. Arthur G. Lupton. Major Lupton met with a serious accident while hunting with the Bramham Moor last year ... at the age of 44 ... wife and (son) Thomas .... 7 November 2016. 6 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170206215634/http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=major%20arthur%20michael%20lupton&county=west%20yorkshire%2c%20england. live.
  157. Book: Joseph. Claudia. Kate: The Making of a Princess. 2011. Random House. 978-1-907195-35-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=eSLbxXJdINIC&q=Kate+Middleton+Beechwood+dorothy+lupton++cousin&pg=PT58. 23 March 2018. 7 -. Arthur (Michael Lupton) split his time supervising the farm at Beechwood where he had grown up ... playing polo and hunting ... he (Captain Arthur Michael Lupton) died when his son Tom was only nine year old .... 24 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112106/https://books.google.com/books?id=eSLbxXJdINIC&q=Kate+Middleton+Beechwood+dorothy+lupton++cousin&pg=PT58. live.
  158. Web site: Planning Asket Hill Housing Development ... Roundhay. Leeds City Council (UK). 2016. 23 March 2018. Mr M, Mr D and Ms H. Lupton the children of Tom Lupton and great nephews and niece of Elinor and Elizabeth Lupton were keen to ensure that, despite any Asket Hill (at Beechwood) housing developments, as wildlife lovers, they would protect their family's land just as their great aunts had done years ago..
  159. Web site: Ancestors of Kate Middleton Found On Film. British Pathe. 10 July 2013. 23 March 2018. 23 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180323220324/https://britishpathe.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/the-duchess-of-cambridges-ancestors-discovered-on-film/. dead.
  160. Book: Milner . L. . Leeds Pals . Pen and Sword . 31 December 1990 . 21 . 27 November 2018 . Brotherton's committee was composed of the following City dignitaries: Alderman F. M. Lupton ... Mr. Arthur G Lupton . 978-0-85052-335-5 . 24 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112153/https://books.google.com/books?id=XargAwAAQBAJ&q=arthur+lupton++councillor++Leeds++council&pg=PA21#v=snippet&q=arthur%20lupton%20%20councillor%20%20Leeds%20%20council&f=false . live .
  161. News: The Antiques Trade Gazette . Found in the attic: Benjamin money . 25 July 2006 . 12 July 2013 . 29 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204132/http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2006/jul/25/found-in-the-attic-benjamin-money/ . live .
  162. Book: Lupton. Dr. C. A.. The Lupton Family in Leeds. Wm. Harrison and Son. 1965. 10 November 2016. 24 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112135/https://books.google.com/books?id=-PQIMwEACAAJ&q=Lupton++family++of+Leeds. live.
  163. Web site: Tonight's Concert. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 27 May 1943. 7 November 2016. Tonight's Concert. The Princess Royal and the Lady Mayoress (Miss E. G. Lupton) will be present in the Town Hall at 6.30 pm. to-day for the second concert .... 6 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170206212559/http://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=miss%20e%20lupton%20%20tonight%27s%20concert&county=west%20yorkshire%2C%20england&from=1941&to=1947. live.
  164. News: Leeds Musical Festival . 14 March 2022 . Leeds Mercury . Yorkshire, England . 25 March 1933 . ...in addition to Mr. Marshall, there were added the Lord Mayor (Alderman R. H. Blackburn), who presided at yesterday's meeting, Mr. J. W. Hepworth (Huddersfield), Mr- A. H. Baines (president of Leeds Choral Union), Major Arthur D. Middleton and Mr. R. Noel Middleton (secretary of Leeds Saturday concerts) . 24 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240224112109/https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=mr%20%20r%20noel%20middleton%20leeds&county=yorkshire%2C%20england . live .
  165. Web site: Flint . J. . People of Leeds #19: The Pioneering Life of Jessie Beatrice Kitson . 17 August 2021 . The Secret Library . 11 March 2021 . Yorkshire Post – 3 November 1942: The Trustees of the Patronage of Leeds Vicarage...The body of trustees consists of...Edwin Kitson Clark...the Earl of Harewood, Sir George Bernard Lomas-Walker...Arthur Daryl Middleton... [Middleton was] born 5/11/1892 [died 1962]. Appointed from cadet at Sandhurst to Northamptonshire Regiment as 2Lt on 29th Sept 1911. Promoted to... . 17 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210817082056/https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2021/03/11/the-pioneering-life-of-jessie-beatrice-kitson/ . live .
  166. Book: Winchester College Archives (Register) 1884–1934. 18 January 2022. MIDDLETON, ARTHUR DARYL (D-191Q2), b. 5 Nov., 1892, y. s. of Arthur Middleton, solicitor, of Leeds, and Jessie Marie, d. of Henry Dubs, engineer, Glasgow. R.M.A.; 2 Lt., Northamptonshire Regt., 1911; Capt. 1915; wounded; Instr. 1917–19; retd. as Major 1927; solicitor 1932; with Messrs. Middle- tons, of Leeds. M 20 April 1933, Muriel Winifred, d. of James Arthur Paul, Bramhope Hall, Leeds. Address 2, North Parade, West Park, Leeds 6. Club Naval and Military. 11 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230411235648/https://books.google.com/books?id=yOR1GQAACAAJ. live.
  167. Book: The Law Society's Gazette . 1962 . The Society . 622 . Middleton, Arthur Daryl who formerly practised in Leeds, died on August 28, 1962, age 69. Admitted 1932 . 17 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230428172548/https://books.google.com/books?id=5RgvAAAAIAAJ&q=henry+arthur+daryl+Middleton . 28 April 2023 . live.
  168. Book: Franklin K. . Mathiews . . The Boy's Scout Year Book 1920 . 1920 . 64 . 11 April 2023 . Greetings from Prince Edward...were hastily mobilized in response to a request of the Prince himself, who is exceedingly interested in the movement and is Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of Wales . . 26 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230826215502/https://books.google.com/books?id=iBQ-AQAAMAAJ&q=Edward+Prince+chief+scout+of+wales+of+wales . live .
  169. News: Prince Wales's visit to Leeds ...A GREAT WELCOME . 11 April 2023 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England 17 May 1923 – also Sheffield Independent Yorkshire, England 2 June 1923 . 2 June 1923 . ...[17 May 1923] with the Prince Wales's [impending] visit to Leeds on Friday, June 1. Mr. Alan L.[Lomas] Middleton, Assistant Commissioner for the Leeds County Association, yesterday interviewed the Lord Mayor and the Commissioners of the various local Associations, and final arrangements...Leeds School for the Blind...Blenheim Walk, and they were in charge of...Scoutmaster M. Noel Ridley. Mr Alan Middleton, Assistant County Commissioner was also there. The Prince stayed nearly two minutes, and...a salute which some of the boys were able to...[Yorkshire Post – 2 June 1923 (page 13)]...fourteen cubs drawn from the Leeds School for the Blind, in the care of the Assistant County Commissioner, Mr Alan Middleton and the scoutmaster Noel Ridley ...as the Royal procession drew near, the Prince stopped his car and saluted those little fellows. Scoutmasters Middleton and Ridley were called forward, and in very sympathetic conversation his Royal Highness asked how the troop managed to operates under the greatest of all dis-advantages and it was explained that the partially sighted boys assisted the others. The prince examined the ranks with deep interest and expressed his good wishes to the Troop. Saluting the boys, whose sightless eyes were all turned toward shim, the Prince passed on his way amid ringing cheers. . 11 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411061442/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=mr%20alan%20middleton%20assistant%20commissioner&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1922&to=1924&page=2 . live .
  170. Web site: Bramham Moor Hunt. Leeds City Council UK Gov.. 7 November 2016. 7 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161107160222/http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20041110_49352664&DISPLAY=FULL. live.
  171. News: ...CHARLES LUPTON...LARGE ATTENDANCE AT SERVICE . 29 August 2023 . The Leeds Mercury . 1 February 1935 . 3 . 29 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230829073142/https://www.findmypast.com.au/image-viewer?issue=BL/0000748/19350201&page=3&article=048&stringtohighlight=norman++lupton+a++l+middleton . live .
  172. News: Mr Hugh Lupton – former Lord Mayor of Leeds . 29 August 2023 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 22 February 1947 . Others present were: – Sir Edwin Airey, Mr Noel Middleton, Mr Christopher Middleton, Mr Anthony John Middleton and Mr Peter Middleton... . 29 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230829073142/https://www.findmypast.com.au/image-viewer?issue=BL/0000748/19350201&page=3&article=048&stringtohighlight=norman++lupton+a++l+middleton . live .
  173. Web site: The Duchess of Cambridge becomes the Patron of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Nursing Now campaign. The Royal Family. 27 February 2018. 1 March 2018. 1 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180301164829/https://www.royal.uk/duchess-cambridge-becomes-patron-royal-college-obstetricians-and-gynaecologists-and-nursing-now. live.
  174. News: The Duchess of Cambridge pays sartorial tribute to nurses as she launches Nursing Now campaign. The Daily Telegraph. Olivia. Buxton Smith. 27 February 2018. 1 March 2018. 1 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180301080738/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/duchess-cambridge-pays-sartorial-tribute-nurses-launches-nursing/. live.
  175. News: Blott. U.. The Duchess of Cambridge says Prince William is 'in denial' about third child. 6 March 2018. The New Zealand Herald. 1 March 2018. This campaign means a lot to me personally. My great-grandmother and grandmother were both volunteer nurses.... 6 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180306101437/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12004111. live.
  176. News: Furness. H.. Duchess of Cambridge to become champion of nurses. The Daily Telegraph. UK. 15 February 2018. 9 April 2018. The Duchess' own great-grandmother, Olive Middleton, is known to have worked as a nurse, caring for wounded servicemen after the Leeds estate belonging to a cousin Florence, Baroness Airedale was turned into a field hospital. There, in Gledhow Hall, she is reported to have nursed men.... 9 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180409142727/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/15/duchess-cambridge-become-champion-nurses/. live.
  177. News: Tominey . Camilla . Duchess of Cambridge's great great aunt was a mental asylum patient – just like Prince William's great-grandmother . 21 August 2022 . The Daily Telegraph . UK . 19 August 2022 . Gertrude was also a volunteer nurse in connection with the Red Cross...during the First World War...alongside her sister-in-law Olive Middleton at Gledhow Hall, near Leeds, the home of Baroness Airedale, Olive's second cousin. . 22 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220922003656/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/19/duchess-cambridges-great-great-aunt-mental-asylum-patient . live .
  178. News: An Epidemic in Leeds . 5 May 2023 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 3 March 1930 . It was pleasing to have an invitation from Mrs Arthur Middleton...Miss Olive Middleton spoke on Thursday...Lady McClaren was at the meeting and Mrs Hugh Lupton....
  179. Jones . Helen . 'Hours of Distraction and Cheerful Companionship': Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs and the Girls' Clubs Era (1904–1944) . 2013 . Publications of the Thoresby Society. 24 (Miscellany). Second. 7 May 2023 . LAGC’s first executive committee also included members of the Middleton and Lupton families who have become the focus of twenty-first century interest due to being the forbears of the Duchess of Cambridge (formerly Kate Middleton)....In 1909, 500 seats were insufficient for the evening meeting. [Miss] Olive Middleton reported on the ‘marked improvement in the behaviour of the audience’, presumably in comparison with previous years..
  180. News: Football and Betting . 7 May 2023 . Leeds Mercury Yorkshire, England (also Funeral of the Late Mr. J. S. Calverley. Yorkshire Evening Post. Friday 4 January, 1901: The Bishop of Richmond, who was assisted by the Rev. E. H. Dykes (incumbent of Oulton (1898-), the Rev. R. Garrad (curate of Oulton), and seven other clergymen of the district, conducted the service.). 25 February 1902 . The Rev. E. H. Dykes, Vicar Oulton who will be remembered as old Leeds Parish Church football player, did not think it wise to encourage athletic sports....
  181. News: Girls' Clubs in Leeds . 8 May 2023 . Leeds Mercury . 8 May 1905 . ...the title of the Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs...Prizes were distributed in the evening by Mrs Arthur Middleton and...the Rev E.H. Dykes....
  182. News: Big Leeds Funeral - Mr Arthur Middleton Buried this Afternoon at St. Chad's . 7 May 2023 . The Yorkshire Evening News. . 11 January 1907 . Mourners....widow Mrs Arthur Middleton..Rev. E.H. Dykes.
  183. News: The Late W.H. Stables - Interrment at St Chad's, Headingley . 11 May 2023 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 3 October 1906 . Mrs Arthur Middleton...Mr Gilbert Middleton and Mr...wardens at St Chad's.
  184. News: FILEY . 20 April 2024 . Bridlington Free Press Yorkshire, England . 1 May 1886 . The solos were taken Mrs Mclntyre, Miss Miss Davison, Miss ..., Miss Lena Mr. Charles Cooper (London). Mr. [Gilbert] Middleton ([St Chad's Church], Leeds), Mr, K. Pym, Mr. W, Foster Smith, and Rev. C Milford, The following choruses from Handel's Messiah were admirably sung....
  185. Web site: Gilbert Middleton - 1911 "Glebe House", Hollin Lane, Far Headingly, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England . The N.I.W and P., Probate Search Service, (H.M. Government U.K.). . 5 May 2023.
  186. Web site: Higginbotham . P. . St Chad's Home for Girls, Far Headingley . Higginbotham . 4 May 2024.
  187. News: BIG LEEDS FUNERAL - Mr A. middleton Buried at St Chad's Church this Afternoon . 6 May 2023 . Yorkshire Evening News . 11 January 1907 . ...journey to St Chad's Church, Far Headingley, where the deceased gentleman had been a regular attender....
  188. News: The Late Mr J.W. Middleton of Leeds . 7 May 2023 . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer . 20 July 1887 . The service was read by the Rev. Dr. Smyth (vicar of St Chad's, Headingley)....
  189. News: Poor Women of Leeds – Society Wants More Helpers . 20 November 2022 . Leeds Mercury, England . 17 February 1938 . ...the report of the Christmas fund by Mrs. R. B. Hopkins,...Mr Noel Middleton proposed the election of officers. [Also, Leeds Mercury 8 Feb. 1927 [page 5] The Good Work of the Trained Nurses' Institution...Mr Noel Middleton was re-elected Hon. Treasurer the of Leeds Trained Nurses Institution...], [Also – Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England Tuesday 27 June 1922 – The Yorkshire Post. The engagement is announced of Ronald Broughton Hopkins, youngest son of Mr.and Mrs. Richard Burrough Hopkins, of Moor Allerton Hall. Leeds, and Margaret Joyce, elder daughter of the late Mr. Gilbert Middleton, and Mrs. Middleton, of The Glebe House, Far Headingley, Leeds]...[Also Leeds Mercury Yorkshire, England, 2 January 1925 A Leeds Wedding. At St. Chad's Church, Far Headingley, yesterday, Mr. Ronald Broughton Hopkins, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Borrough Hopkins, of Moor-Allerton Hall, was married to Miss Margaret Joyce Middleton, elder daughter of the late Gilbert Middleton...(also) Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England 6 Dec 1930 – Leeds Unmarried Women...Mrs. Ronald Hopkins, of Langthorpe, Sandhill Lane, Moortown, Leeds, hon. treasurer of the Christmas Fund of the Leeds Unmarried Women's Benevolent Institution |archive-date=20 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120094605/https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=mrs%20%20r%20%20hopkins&county=yorkshire,%20england&from=1919&to=1943&page=1 |url-status=live ].
  190. Web site: Thomas . S. . Tragic Loss of Young Photographer in Filey Seaside Incident Sparks Generational Legacy of Photography Among Middletons . TDPel . 10 August 2024.
  191. Book: Joseph . Claudia . Kate: The Making of a Princess . 2010 . Mainstream Publishing . 10 August 2024 . ...Filey, where tragedy struck once again...went for a walk along Filey Brigg...Margaret had disappeared....
  192. News: A Tragedy At Filey Brigg . 10 August 2024 . The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 May 1900 . 3.
  193. News: A Fashionable Wedding . 24 August 2023 . Ripon Observer Yorkshire, England . 9 March 1905 . ...six bridesmaids — Miss Burrell (sister), Miss Hilda Lupton (sister of the bridegroom), Miss Audrey Loder and Miss Aileen Stewart (cousins of the bride), Miss Agnes Lupton ([first] cousin of the bridegroom), and Miss Gladys Rolls Hoare....Mr. Norman Lupton was best man, and the Dowager Lady Loder, Sir Edmund Loder, the Earl and Countess of Leitrim, Sir Merrik [Merrick]...Mr Norman Lupton ([first] cousin of the bridegroom)...[Also: ''West Sussex County Times Sussex, England'' 4 Mar 1905, BRIDEGROOM'S PRESENTS: Dowager Lady Loder, Rifle. Mr. W[illiam]. G[eorge]. Lupton. Cream jug. Mrs. Alan Lupton, House linen and clock. Miss C. M. Lidderdale, Chippendale chest of drawers. Miss Hilda Lupton, Fitted suit case. Mr. Edgar Lupton, Silver menu holders. Mr. F. M. Lupton, Barometer. [and the Misses Lupton]...[Also: ''West Sussex County Times'', Sussex, England, 4 Mar 1905 – BRIDEGROOM'S PRESENTS...Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kitson, Silver casket. Dowager Lady Loder, Rifle. Mr. W. G. Lupton. cream jug. Mrs. Alan Lupton, House linen and clock... |archive-date=24 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824051845/https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=alice%20hilda%20%20lupton%20burrell%20cousins&from=1904&to=1907 |url-status=live }}</ref> Nöel Middleton references having met with Norman in a telegram he sent to his father-in-law, Francis Martineau Lupton, upon the death of Francis' eldest son, Major Francis Ashford Lupton on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in 1917.[142]

    Newton Park and Beechwood Estates

    Members of Olive Middleton's family owned the Newton Park and Beechwood estates in Leeds, the latter being the family seat where, for decades, the "whole family would gather".[143] The Lupton family are described in the Leeds City Council's photographic archive as "woollen manufacturers and landed gentry—a political and business dynasty"; Olive's first cousin-once-removed, Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton),[144] alongside her daughter and son-in-law, Baron and Baroness Airedale, had been invited to the coronation of King George V in 1911.[145] [146] [147]

    In 1891, Olive Middleton's grandmother Frances employed seven indoor servants, including a lady's maid at Beechwood; the estate's cottages housed gardeners, grooms, coachmen and a farm bailiff.[148]

    Her father, Francis Martineau Lupton, was the eldest son and heir of Francis Lupton III and grew up initially at Potternewton Hall on the family's Newton Park Estate[149] and then their Georgian Beechwood Estate, in Roundhay.[150] [151] Whereas the family eventually sub-divided Newton Park,[152] the Beechwood estate was entailed to Olive's eldest brother, Francis Ashford Lupton, who lacked a male heir. His death on 26 February 1917 followed the deaths of his two younger brothers—all First World War casualties. Their father's death occurred in 1921. Olive Middleton and her sister, Anne Lupton, inherited a portion of the Newton Park Estate[153] [154] but were prohibited from inheriting Beechwood and the estate succeeded to their father's brother, Arthur Greenhow Lupton. Arthur's only son, Major Arthur Michael Lupton, died in 1929 following an accident on his horse the previous year whilst fox hunting on the Bramham Moor Hunt, and Beechwood passed to his only son, Tom Lupton. As Tom was only nine at the time of his father's death, his spinster aunts, Elinor and Elizabeth—"The Misses Lupton"—were granted a life interest in Beechwood and continued to live there, occasionally opening their gardens to the public.[155] After their deaths (Elizabeth in 1977 and Elinor in 1979), Tom inherited Beechwood and in 2016, his children continue to retain some of the estate.[156] [157] [158]

    City of Leeds dignitaries

    On 2 September 1914, Lord Mayor Lord Brotherton announced that the Leeds City Council would be raising a new battalion: the Leeds Pals. His committee was composed of "City dignitaries" including Olive Middleton's father, alderman Francis Martineau Lupton and his brother Arthur Greenhow Lupton. The following year, they were filmed inspecting the Pals troops alongside another one of their brothers, Lord Mayor Sir Charles Lupton.[159] [160] Olive's first cousin, Lady Mayoress Elinor Lupton, regularly played host to the Princess Royal.[161] [162] [163]

    In the 1930s, both Noël Middleton and his first cousin, Major Arthur Daryl Middleton (1892–1962), were committee members of the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival.[164] In 1942, Major Middleton was a member of the Trustees of the Patronage of Leeds Vicarage alongside Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood. He was a solicitor at Messrs Middleton & Sons.[165] [166] [167]

    As the Assistant Commissioner for the Leeds County Scouts Association, solicitor Alan Lomas Middleton arranged a visit by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) to Leeds in June 1923 where the Prince's position as the Chief Scout of Wales reportedly saw him examine—"with deep interest"—Middleton's scouts, most of whom were visually-impaired. The Prince and Middleton had a "very sympathetic conversation" after which the Prince expressed his good wishes and gave them a salute.[168] [169]

    Two of Olive Middleton's uncles were Lord Mayors of Leeds: brothers Hugh Lupton and Sir Charles Lupton. Sir Charles also served as Deputy lieutenant of Yorkshire County (West Riding), and his Lord Lieutenant was Princess Mary's father-in-law, Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood.[170] Amongst the mourners at Charles' funeral in 1935 – which paid tribute in particular to his twenty-one years as chairman of the Leeds General Infirmary – were Norman D. Lupton, Alan Cecil Lupton, Lady Bryce, Sir Edwin Airey, Lord Ashton of Hyde, Beatrice Kitson, Lady Clarke, Alan Lomas Middleton, Mrs Henry Dubs Middleton and Mr and Mrs Noël Middleton.[171] In February 1947, the Leeds funeral of former Lord Mayor Hugh Lupton was attended by civic dignitaries and family, including his great-nephews, brothers Christopher, Anthony and Peter Middleton, and their father, Noël Middleton.[172]

    Nursing and welfare

    In 2018, Catherine, Princess of Wales, stated that her patronage of the Nursing Now campaign meant a lot to her personally as both her great-grandmother, Olive Middleton, and grandmother, Valerie Middleton, have been VAD nurses.[173] [174] [175] [176] In 2022, it was revealed that the duchess' great-great-aunt Gertrude Middleton was also a VAD nurse at Gledhow Hall, the home of Baroness Airedale, Olive's second cousin.[177]

    In 1930, Noël Middleton's spinster sister, Miss Olive Middleton (1870-1961), was reportedly a committee member of the Workpeople's Hospital Fund alongside her aunt Mrs Arthur Middleton (1858-1950) who, like her niece, was a committee member of the Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs and a friend of the Rev. E.H. Dykes, Vicar of Oulton (1898-1903).[178] [179] [180] [181] [182]

    Noël Middleton's brother, Gilbert, was a lead choralist and Church warden of St Chad's Church, Far Headingley[183] [184] and owned Glebe House, Hollin Lane, Far Headingley which, from 1889 until 1893 had operated as St Chad's Home for Girls.[185] [186] The service at the funeral in 1887 of the brothers' father, J.W. Middleton, was read by the Rev. Dr. Smyth, vicar of St Chad's Church where his son Arthur Middleton had been a regular attender and had his own funeral service in 1907.[187] [188]

    Noël Middleton and his niece, Mrs Ronald Broughton Hopkins (née Margaret Middleton, 1900–1972), held honorary positions on nursing and welfare-related committees in Leeds.[189]

    Photography

    Many generations of Catherine's family have participated in the art of photography, including her great-great grandfather solicitor John Middleton, her great-grandfather solicitor Noël Middleton, his brother William and their sister Margaret, who was due to study at the University of Oxford but drowned in April 1900 whilst taking photographs of Filey Brigg. Catherine's grandfather, Peter Middleton, further nurtured his family's passion for photography.[190] [191] [192]

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