Sir William Fowle Middleton, 1st Baronet (8 November 1748 – 26 December 1829) was an English

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and High Sheriff. He was born William Middleton in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest son of William Middleton of Crowfield and the grandson of

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, acting governor of South Carolina. He was educated at

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and

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and succeeded his father in 1775. He was pricked

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for 1782–83. In 1784 he was elected MP for

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, sitting until 1790. He was re-elected for the same constituency for

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to 1806 and finally for

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in 1806. He was created a baronet in 1804. He purchased the Shrubland estate in the late 1700s and in 1823 adopted the additional name of Fowle under the will of John Fowle of Broome, Norfolk. He had married Harriot, the daughter and eventual heiress of Nathaniel Acton of Bramford Hall, Suffolk and had 1 son and 2 daughters. He was succeeded by his only son, Sir William Fowle Middleton, 2nd Baronet. His daughter Sarah Louisa married

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, later Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, 1st Baronet.

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, - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Middleton, William Fowke 1748 births 1829 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom High Sheriffs of Suffolk Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Ipswich British MPs 1784–1790 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ipswich UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1806–1807 Tory MPs (pre-1834)

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