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Biography of Sir John Throgmorton Middlemore
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Parents William Middlemore and Mary Groom of Edgbaston (Fourth son and 10th child)
Dates June 9, 1844 - October 17, 1924
Honours Created first baronet of Selly Oak, May 27, 1919
Education Edgbaston Propriety School
M. D. Brunswick, Maine, USA
Occupations Worked in Middlemore and Lamplugh, family saddlery and leather business (ca 1858-60);
Founder (in 1872), manager, and chief supporter of the Children’s Emigration Homes in Birmingham and the Middlemore Homes (Guthrie Home, London Ontario, and Fairview Home in Halifax, Nova Scotia) in Canada;
Member, Birmingham City Council 1883-1892;
M.P. for Birmingham North, 1899-1918;
J.P. For Birmingham and Worcestershire.
Marriage Firstly, September 25, 1878, Marian (died 1879, probably in childbirth, a daughter was born November 8, 1879), daughter of Richard Bagnall, J.P, of Worcester, at Severn Stoke, Worcester;
Secondly, December 29, 1881, Mary, daughter of Rev. Thomas Price, Vicar of Selly Oak, at St. Mary's, Selly Oak;
Children William Hawkslow, born April 10, 1908, m. 1934 Violet Constance, daughter of Andrew Kennagh of Worcester; who succeeded to the title;
Mary Evangeline, born November 1, 1882;
Sara Dorothea, born October 12, 1883, m. 1922 Nicolai Khoslov of Vilnia, Powursk, Poland;
Emily Christabel, born March 12, 1885, m. Percy Theodore Hughes, M.B., (Barnsley Hall, Bromsgrove);
Amphilis Throckmorton, born April 14, 1891, died July 26,1930;
Barbara Carola, born July 14, 1895, m. 1920 Samuel Mason of Maryland, USA;
Merell Philippa M.A., MRCS, LRCP, London University, born early 1900s died November 13, 1938.
At least two more daughters were born to this family who did not survive childhood.

Sources:

  • Burkes Peerage, 1950, 1970, 1999;
  • International Genealogical Index, 2002;
  • One hundred years of child care, 1972; Who’s Who, 1920.