John Francis Marchment Middleton (22 May 1921 – 27 February 2009)[1] was a British professor of anthropology in the United States, specializing in Africa.
His work on the Lugbara religion is considered a classic of African anthropology.
From 1954 to 1956, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Middleton continued to teach at Yale as a professor emeritus until his death in 2009.
Middleton died on Friday, 27 February 2009, at the Yale-New Haven Hospital of head trauma after falling from a seizure two weeks before.