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]
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][5][16] Noël Middleton's youngest son was Captain Peter Francis Middleton, who was Prince Philip's co-pilot on a tour of South America.[17][18] Peter Middleton's second son is entrepreneur Michael Francis Middleton, who married Carole Goldsmith in 1980 and subsequently relocated to Berkshire.[19] The couple founded a mail-order supply company, Party Pieces, in 1987, but sold it in May 2023 after it fell into administration.[20] The company was at one point estimated to be worth £30 million,[21][22] 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.[23][24][25] The company's administrator's report stated that unsecured creditors were unlikely to be paid.[26]
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),[64] 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][65]
John Middleton-Joy's elder brother, solicitor Alan Lomas Middleton (1893–1970)[77] 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.[78][79][80] 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.[81] David attended the wedding at Westminster Abbey in April 2011 of Catherine Middleton – his second cousin, once removed – to Prince William.[4][34][82]
Described by Tina Brown as being at the "top level of the legal profession in Leeds",[88] Middleton & Co. existed for over 150 years, closing in 1985.[12][13][14]
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.[93][94][95] The two sisters also shared great-grandparents with Beatrix Potter.[96]
Middleton boarded at Clifton College[97] and then studied English at New College, Oxford.[98] 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,[99] Middleton was confirmed in his rank and promoted to flying officer (war-substantive) on 9 March 1942.[100] 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).[101] 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, Flew with Lancashire Aircraft Corporation, before moving to British European Airways as a pilot, but remained in the reconstituted RAFVR, receiving a reserve commission as a flying officer on 12 August 1949.[102] Promoted to flight lieutenant on 1 March 1951,[103] he relinquished his reserve commission on 12 August 1959.[104]
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.[105] Middleton met his granddaughter's fiancé, Prince William, on his 90th birthday and William attended his funeral in November 2010.[105][106][107]
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.[108][109] 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.[110][111]
Valerie Middleton also worked at the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park where a memorial commemorates her work as a code-breaker.[15][112][113][114] 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".[115]
Middleton "married the aristocrat"—Olive—at the Mill Hill Chapel in Leeds in 1914.[117][47][125] 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) [126] and was a City of Leeds councillor alongside Olive's father.[127][128][129]
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.[146][147] Also reportedly supporting the association was another of Frances's granddaughters, Elinor,[148] as well as Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton)[147] and her daughter, the Hon. Mrs Albert Kitson (née Florence von Schunck, later Baroness Airedale), the respective niece and great-niece of Frances.[149]
Olive Middleton's brother, Lionel Martineau Lupton (1892–1916) attended Rugby alongside Alan Lomas Middleton,[150] 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.[145][151][152] 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.[153] 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 in 1917.[154]
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".[155] 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),[156] alongside her daughter and son-in-law, Baron and Baroness Airedale, had been invited to the coronation of King George V in 1911.[157][158][159]
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.[160]
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[161] and then their Georgian Beechwood Estate, in Roundhay.[162][163] Whereas the family eventually sub-divided Newton Park,[164] 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[165][166] 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.[167] 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.[168][169][170]
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.[180][181]
Olive Middleton, far right, seated on arm of couch, in 1915 at Gledhow Hall. Olive's sister-in-law, Gertrude Middleton, is standing beside her[185]
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.[186][187][188][189] 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.[190]
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).[191][192][193][194][195]
Noël Middleton's brother, Gilbert, was a lead choralist and Church warden of St Chad's Church, Far Headingley[196][68] and owned Glebe House, Hollin Lane, Far Headingley which, from 1889 until 1893 had operated as St Chad's Home for Girls.[197][198] 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.[199][200]
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.[201]
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.[202][203][204]
^Lacey, Robert (2021). Battle of Brothers (2nd ed.). London: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 63. ISBN978-0-00-840854-1. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2021. ...this genteel clan that could trace their descent back to Tudor times.
^Taylor, T. (1886). The History of Wakefield – The Rectory Manor. W. H. Milnes. pp. 302, 305, 335, 368. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 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...
^ abWilson, N. (26 April 2011). "William and Kate's links with Yorkshire". York Press. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021. David, who is widowed...is proud of the Middleton clan and the legal business that spawned five generations.
^"Funeral of Earl". Yorkshire Evening Post. West Yorkshire, England. 19 May 1948. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2013 – via Genes Reunited. Mr. Richard Noel Middleton, retired woollen manufacturer [William Lupton & Co.], Park Avenue, Roundhay, said [that on] 05.45 am, on May...
^Rayner, Gordon (13 September 2013). "'Middle-class' Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George V's coronation". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 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.
^"Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood". London: National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 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...
^Report of the Council – Volume 72. Vol. 72. Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. 1892. p. 25. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023. Arthur Middleton, Hawkhills, Chapel Allerton
^Silson, A. (Autumn 2014). "Oak Leaves (Part Fourteen) – The Mysteries of Gledhow Grange"(PDF). Oakwood and District Historical Society: pp. 13–14. Archived(PDF) from the original on 11 November 2021. Retrieved 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.
^ abReed, Michael (2016). "Gledhow Hall". David Poole. Archived from the original on 6 September 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016. A gentleman farmer, William Middleton Esq. had also lived in the area at Gledhow Grange Estate.
^ ab"Headrow, Permanent House". Leodis – a Photographic Archive of Leeds. City of Leeds UK Gov. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016. The Headrow premises housed Middleton Solicitors until 1985...
^ abcd"Mr H. D. Middleton". Leeds Mercury. West Yorkshire, England. 19 September 1932. Archived from the original on 7 November 2016. Retrieved 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 ...
^ ab"Valerie Middleton". Yorkshire Post. 23 September 2006. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016. Kate's great-grandfather, Richard Noël Middleton, was a solicitor, a founder of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra...
^"Genes Re-united". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 3 July 1951. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 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.
^Sparkes, Matthew (22 April 2014). "Pictured: Royal couple's grandparents' jet-age meeting". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 7 May 2014. Retrieved 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.
^ abTominey, Camilla (14 February 2016). "Truth behind Prince George's love of aviation". Daily Express. UK. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 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...
^ ab"PICTURED: Kate's great grandmother and her own extraordinary contribution to Britain's war". Daily Express. UK. 2 July 2016. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2020. As the horrors of the conflict began to become plain she [Olive Middleton] volunteered to work as a nurse at the sprawling estate of her second cousin Baroness Airedale, Gledhow Hall...Olive volunteered as a nurse with her relatives Baroness Airedale, left, and Lady Bullock,...
^Lacey, Robert (2021). Battle of Brothers (2nd ed.). London: HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 62, 553. ISBN978-0-00-840854-1. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 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.
^"Royal wedding: Family tree". BBC News. UK. 13 April 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 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].
^ ab"Headrow, Permanent House". Leodis – a Photographic Archive of Leeds. City of Leeds UK Gov. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 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...")
^Shadbolt, G. (1941). The British Journal of Photography – Volume 87. H. Greenwood. p. 108. Retrieved 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 ...
^Charter, Supplemental Charters, By-laws, and List of Members ... London: the Institution of Civil Engineers. 1893. pp. 162, 207, 87, 216. Archived from the original on 28 April 2023. Retrieved 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...]
^"LYMINGTON WIDOW'S DEATH Five Weeks After Husband's Sudden Passing". Hampshire Advertiser. 25 May 1940. Retrieved 5 September 2020. 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....
^"Marriages: Middleton – Talbot". Leeds Times. Yorkshire, England. 3 March 1900. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 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.] ...
^"The Late Mr W.D. Cliff". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire. England. 6 March 1917. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 29 February 2020. 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)] ...
^"The Infirmary Appeal: Princess Royal's Support of Scheme". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 1 December 1933. p. 3. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2019. 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 ...
^Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage: With Her Majesty's Royal Warrant Holders. Debrett's Peerage Ltd. 1990. ISBN978-0-312-04640-8. 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
^Reitwiesner, William (April 2011). "Ancestry of Catherine, Princess of Wales – Catherine Middleton". New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2020. 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
^ abJoseph, C. (2011). Kate: The Making of a Princess. Random House. ISBN978-1-907195-35-8. Retrieved 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...
^Tominey, Camilla (19 August 2022). "Duchess of Cambridge's great great aunt was a mental asylum patient – just like Prince William's great-grandmother". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 21 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.
^Tominey, Camilla (19 August 2022). "Duchess of Cambridge's great great aunt was a mental asylum patient – just like Prince William's great-grandmother". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 21 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.
^Girdlestone, F. K. W. (1911). Charterhouse School Register 1872–1910 – Volume 2. Proprietors at the Chiswick Press. p. 536. Archived from the original on 28 April 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2020. Henry Dubs Middleton, born 18th September 1880...Matriculated Univ. College 1899 [graduate in law 1903]...
^Timmons, A. (2019). Kate Middleton and Prince William. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p. 30. ISBN978-1-5081-8886-5. Retrieved 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]
^"Naval Officers of World War I". National Portrait Gallery, London. London: National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 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.
^"Headrow, Permanent House". Leodis – a Photographic Archive of Leeds. City of Leeds UK Gov. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016. 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 ...
^Hughes, H. (27 November 2017). "Kate Middleton family tree: Lineage of Prince William's 'commoner' wife MAPPED". Daily Express. UK: Reach plc. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 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.
^"Debretts". Debretts. 1920. p. 57. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2021. ...Henry Dubs Middleton, ..., and has issue, Ralph, b. 1908, [d. 1990] – Cecil, b. 1911, [d. 1984] -...
^"The Headrow, Permanent House and Headrow Buildings". Leodis – Leeds City Council. 2021. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021. 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.
^"Jan 12, 1926, page 7 - Western Mail at Newspapers.com". Retrieved 22 November 2024 – via Newspapers.com. The wedding of Miss. Mary youngest daughter of the late Mr. H. Rees. Jones and Mrs. Rees-Jones, of Highfleld, Penarth, to Mr. Alan Lomas Middleton, elder son of the late Mr. Gilbert Middleton, will take place in London, from the residence of the bride's uncle and aunt, Sir Anton and Lady Bertram, and will be celebrated very quietly at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, on Wednesday, February 10.
^Welch, L. (10 July 2023). "Inside Princess Kate's intriguing connection to Eton College as George eyes up new school". UK Daily Express. Archived from the original on 13 January 2024. Retrieved 26 December 2023. John Middleton, who is another relative of Kate, attended rival Winchester College but played cricket against Eton in the 1914 Eton Match. Noel and Olive Middleton watched on from the sidelines as the game took place.
^Lee, Helen Bourne Joy (1968). The Joy Genealogy. Pequot Press. John Middleton Joy (or Joy-Middleton), joined "filtrates"ab 1920. Desc, from the firm's founder through his mother, changed his name from Middleton
^ ab"FILEY". Bridlington Free Press. Yorkshire, England. 1 May 1886. Retrieved 20 April 2024. The solos were taken by Mrs Mclntyre, Miss McCallum, Miss Davison, Miss Fox, Miss Lena Pym, Mr. Charles Cooper (London). Mr. [Gilbert] Middleton (Leeds), Mr. E. Pym, Mr. W. Foster Smith, and Rev. C. Milford, The following choruses from Handel's Messiah were admirably sung...
^"Mail and Ship News". Leeds Mercury. 16 April 1887. Retrieved 20 April 2023. 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...
^The Law Journal. E.B. Ince. 1892. 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.
^"The National Archives (UK) – Winchester College". Richmond: The National Archives Kew. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 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.
^"Leodis – The Headrow, Leeds". UK City of Leeds. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 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...
^The Near East. 1921. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 6 February 2024. 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
^"The National Archives (UK) – Winchester College". Richmond: The National Archives Kew. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 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.
^"The Princess Royal on Holiday". Leeds Mercury. 22 February 1934. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022. 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...
^"WE REMEMBER ALAN LOMAS MIDDLETON". Imperial War Museums. 2023. Archived from the original on 30 August 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023. SERVICE British Army Captain Royal Field Artillery Source:3024406
^Middleton, Alan Lomas. "Yorkshire Ramblers' Club". The Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 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.
^"Leodis – The Headrow, Leeds". UK City of Leeds. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 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.
^Hunter, A., ed. (1890). Cheltenham College Register – 1841–1889. George Bell and Sons, London. p. 326. Retrieved 29 August 2023. Gilbert Middleton – son of John William Middleton, Park Row, Leeds...
^The Scottish Law Directory for ... W. Hodge. 1969. Archived from the original on 15 February 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024. 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
^"Genes Re-united". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 3 July 1951. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 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.
^Lacey, Robert (2020). Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the inside story of a family in tumult. London: William Collins. ISBN978-0-00-840852-7. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2020. 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.
^"Archive - Royal Russell School". www.royalrussell.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 January 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2024. Kate's Family : School Benefactors
^Beachcroft, S. (1962). Clifton College Register, 1862 to 1962. Bristol, England: Clifton College. p. 282. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2021. Lupton, Christopher Maurice (formerly MIDDLETON, C. M. )...Emmanuel, Camb. [University of Cambridge, 1934–36]; Leeds Univ., Textile Industries Dept.; 1939 War, S / Capt...
^Joseph, C. (2011). Kate: The Making of a Princess. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN978-1-907195-35-8. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2021. Tony [Anthony] worked with his father Noel and brother Christopher at the family [wool manufacturing] firm William Lupton & Co
^Joseph, C. (January 2011). Kate: The Making of a Princess. Random House. ISBN978-1-907195-35-8. 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.
^Llewellyn Smith, J. (27 July 2013). "Why we should all be grateful the Middletons". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019. 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.
^"Obituary – Peter Francis Middleton". The Times. UK. 27 November 2010. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019. 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.
^"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. Archived from the original on 1 September 2015. Retrieved 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...
^Rayner, Gordon (21 June 2013). "How the family of 'commoner' Kate Middleton has been rubbing shoulders with royalty for a century". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 2 July 2013. Retrieved 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
^Reitwiesner, W. (2011). "The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton". New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2020. Valerie Glassborow, b. 3 rue Giay Bompard, Marseille, 5 Jan. 1924 [birth registered with the British Consul General at Marseille, entry no. 203]
^Toua, M. (4 August 2020). "Kate Middleton family: Inside the story of Kate's incredible code-breaking grandmother". Daily Express. UK. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 8 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.
^Ward, Victoria (4 August 2020). "Duchess hails Red Cross as part of her family". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 6 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 ...
^Furness, H. (14 May 2019). "Kate meets the codebreakers: Duchess of Cambridge tells of her sadness over her grandmother's secret Bletchley Park life". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 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.
^Singh, Anita (18 June 2014). "Duchess of Cambridge learns grandmother's wartime past". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 27 July 2015. Retrieved 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 ...
^"Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood". London: National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 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. The procession of dignitaries which followed her included Charles Lupton's brother, Leeds Lord Mayor Hugh Lupton and his wife Isabella Lupton, the Lady Mayoress. 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.
^"Potternewton Hall, entrance gates". Leodis. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024. 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.
^Elliot, Chris (24 January 2018). "Revealed: How Meghan Markle's ancestry was shaped by Cambridge". Cambridge News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018. Olive Middleton was accepted into Newnham College (University of Cambridge) in 1900, where her sister Anne later studied ...
^"Garden Party, Headingley Cricket Ground". Leodis – Leeds City Council. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 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.
^"Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood". London: National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 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.
^ ab"Royal wedding: Family tree". BBC News. UK. 13 April 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 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.
^"The Solicitor's Journal 19 February 1887". The Solicitor's Journal. 31: 273. 1887. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2020. Second Class Honours – William Henry Clarke who had served his clerkship with Mr John William Middleton of Leeds
^Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, Volume 94. Justice of the Peace, Limited. 1930. Retrieved 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 ...
^"DEATH OF MR. JOHN MIDDLETON". The Leeds Times. 23 July 1887. p. 3. Mr. [John] Middleton was a staunch Conservative, and was election agent to Mr. Richard Dawson in the two contests in East Leeds in 1885 and 1886.
^"The National Archives (UK) – Winchester College". Richmond: The National Archives Kew. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 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.
^"Funeral..."Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2022. Leeds Mercury Yorkshire, England 13 July 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)...
^"Wedding..."Leeds Mercury. Yorkshire, England. 11 February 1926. Archived from the original on 25 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023. [The Bridegroom, Alan Lomas Middleton]...Archdeacon Seaton, Principal of Cuddesdon College [Oxford]...The wedding was solemnised at St. Mary Abbots Church, Kensington...The groomsmen were...Mr. S. T..., Mr. Noel Middleton and Mr. John Middleton.
^"Leeds Reception to Lord and Lady Harewood". The Yorkshire Post (and Leeds Mercury). 23 November 1949. p. front page. Retrieved 28 May 2021. 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...
^"Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood". London: National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 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
^"Leeds Art Gallery Committee". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire. England. 26 November 1909. Retrieved 11 October 2024. Leeds Gallery Committee),... Mr. H. Black ...Mr. P. Ingham,...Mr. Sydney Kitson,...Mr. R. N. Middleton
^"Parliamentary Papers: 1850–1908, Volume 71". Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons – H.M. Stationery Office. 1899. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 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.
^"CLOSE OF MAY WEEK". Cambridge Independent Press. Cambridgeshire, England. 19 June 1914. p. 9. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2020. 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...
^Kuttner, Julia (13 November 2018). "Kate Middleton: How duchess's great grandmother lied to serve as nurse in WW1". Daily Express. UK. Archived from the original on 13 November 2018. Retrieved 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).
^ ab"Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale". London's National Portrait Gallery. 2021. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021. 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.
^"V.A.D.'s Help For Leeds Infirmary". Leeds Mercury. 14 June 1934. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2019. 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.
^ abGutteridge, Nick (2 July 2016). "PICTURED: Kate's great grandmother and her own extraordinary contribution to Britain's war". Daily Express. UK. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 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
^"COINCIDENCE". Leeds Mercury. 9 February 1935. Archived from the original on 19 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022. ...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...
^ abMurdock, J. Paul. "The Middletons, the Luptons and HRH The Duchess of Cambridge". A ROYAL HERALDRY. Weebly 2020. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 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
^"Friendless Girls". Leeds Mercury. 27 January 1932. Archived from the original on 31 December 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2022. ...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...
^"Friends of Friendless Girls". Leeds Mercury. 12 October 1909. Archived from the original on 19 February 2022. Retrieved 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]...
^"Field Artillery". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 4 May 1912. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023. 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]
^Gutteridge, Nick (2 July 2016). "Kate's hero relative died at the Somme after signing up to fight alongside Diana's grandad". Daily Express. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 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 ...
^Low, V. (1 November 2018). "Duchess of Cambridge moved by her family's own Private Ryan story". The Times. UK. Archived from the original on 2 November 2018. Retrieved 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,' ...
^"A Fashionable Wedding". Ripon Observer. Yorkshire, England. 9 March 1905. Archived from the original on 24 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023. ...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...
^"The Duchess of Cambridge views family letters from the First World War". The Royal Household. 2018. Archived from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023. 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"
^Joseph, Claudia (11 January 2011). Kate – The Making of a Princess. Random House. ISBN978-1-907195-35-8. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 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)
^Burke's Peerage Second World War Edition. Burke's Peerage. p. 2944. Archived from the original on 14 July 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2019. ...Edward, Baron von Schunck (b. 31 Jan. 1816) married Kate (1833–1913) – 26 March 1867, daughter of Darnton Lupton of Harehills...
^"Elmete Lane, Beechwood, aerial view". Leodis – a Photographic Archive of Leeds. UK Leeds City Council. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 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.
^"Gledhow Hall, Sir James Kitson". Leodis – a Photographic Archive of Leeds. UK Gov. City of Leeds. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 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.
^Reed, Michael E. (2020). A Regal Yorkshire Family Tree – Blood Relations: The Barons Airedale and the Middleton Family. J. G. K. Nevett. p. 6. ISBN978-0-6488626-0-4. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2020. ...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
^"Penraevon- Newton Park Estate". Happenupon. 2 August 2016. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 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.
^"Death of Major A.M.Lupton". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 25 November 1929. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2016. 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 ...
^Joseph, Claudia (2011). "7 -". Kate: The Making of a Princess. Random House. ISBN978-1-907195-35-8. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2018. 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 ...
^"Planning – Asket Hill Housing Development ... Roundhay". Leeds City Council (UK). 2016. Retrieved 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.[permanent dead link]
^Milner, L. (31 December 1990). Leeds Pals. Pen and Sword. p. 21. ISBN978-0-85052-335-5. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 27 November 2018. Brotherton's committee was composed of the following City dignitaries: Alderman F. M. Lupton ... Mr. Arthur G Lupton
^Lupton, Dr. C. A. (1965). The Lupton Family in Leeds. Wm. Harrison and Son. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
^"Tonight's Concert". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 27 May 1943. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 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 ...
^"Leeds Musical Festival". Leeds Mercury. Yorkshire, England. 25 March 1933. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2022. ...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)
^Flint, J. (11 March 2021). "People of Leeds #19: The Pioneering Life of Jessie Beatrice Kitson". The Secret Library. Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 17 August 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...
^Winchester College Archives (Register) 1884–1934. 1940. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 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
^The Law Society's Gazette. The Society. 1962. p. 622. Archived from the original on 28 April 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2021. Middleton, Arthur Daryl who formerly practised in Leeds, died on August 28, 1962, age 69. Admitted 1932
^Mathiews, Franklin K., ed. (1920). The Boy's Scout Year Book 1920. D. Appleton and Company. p. 64. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 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 .
^"Prince Wales's visit to Leeds ...A GREAT WELCOME". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire. England 17 May 1923 – also Sheffield Independent Yorkshire, England. 2 June 1923. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023. ...[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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
^"Bramham Moor Hunt". Leeds City Council – UK Gov. Archived from the original on 7 November 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^"Mr Hugh Lupton – former Lord Mayor of Leeds". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 22 February 1947. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023. Others present were: – Sir Edwin Airey, Mr Noel Middleton, Mr Christopher Middleton, Mr Anthony John Middleton and Mr Peter Middleton...
^Furness, H. (15 February 2018). "Duchess of Cambridge to become champion of nurses". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 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...
^"An Epidemic in Leeds". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 3 March 1930. Retrieved 5 May 2023. 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...
^Jones, Helen (2013). "'Hours of Distraction and Cheerful Companionship': Leeds Association of Girls' Clubs and the Girls' Clubs Era (1904–1944)"(PDF). Publications of the Thoresby Society. Second. 24 (Miscellany). Retrieved 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.
^"Football and Betting". 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. Retrieved 7 May 2023. 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...{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
^"Girls' Clubs in Leeds". Leeds Mercury. 8 May 1905. Retrieved 8 May 2023. ...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...
^"The Late Mr J.W. Middleton of Leeds". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 20 July 1887. Retrieved 7 May 2023. The service was read by the Rev. Dr. Smyth (vicar of St Chad's, Headingley)...
^"Poor Women of Leeds – Society Wants More Helpers". Leeds Mercury. England. 17 February 1938. Archived from the original on 20 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022. ...the report of the Christmas fund by Mrs. R. B. Hopkins,...Mr Noel Middleton proposed the election of officers. [Also, Leeds Mercury 8 February 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 December 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
^Joseph, Claudia (2010). Kate: The Making of a Princess. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN978-1-907195-35-8. Retrieved 10 August 2024. ...Filey, where tragedy struck once again...went for a walk along Filey Brigg...Margaret had disappeared...
Hall, Coryne (October 2013). "Well Connected". Majesty. 34 (10). London: Rex Publications Limited: 38–39. The Lupton family were certainly no strangers to royalty.....The Duchess of Cambridge may have working-class ancestors but she has distinguished ones too.
Burke's Peerage. Burke's Peerage 107th Edition. p. 494. Retrieved 16 August 2019. Jane Dorothy Elizabeth [Middleton née Berney] (died 15 Dec. 1964), daughter of Sir Henry Hanson Berney, 9th Baronet ... married in 1907 Henry Dubs Middleton (MA Oxon) solicitor, son of Arthur Middleton solicitor of Far Headingley... [brother of John William Middleton solicitor died 1887 – Michael Middleton's great grandfather]
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