Family
Middleton married three times:
- firstly, in 1710, to Sarah Drake, the widow of Counsellor Drake of Cambridge, and daughter of Mr. Morris of Oak Morris in Kent;
- secondly, in 1734, to his cousin Mary, daughter of the Rev. Conyers Place of Dorchester, who died 26 April 1745, aged 38;
- thirdly, at the end of his life, to Anne, daughter of John Powell of Boughrood, near Radnor, who had lived as a companion to Mrs. Trenchard, widow of John Trenchard, later married to Thomas Gordon.
Elizabeth Montagu was a granddaughter of Sarah Drake, and she spent much time as a child with the Middletons in Cambridge, as did her sister Sarah Scott.
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