John Izard Middleton

[3] They lived at Middleton Place, which his elder brother Henry (later Governor of South Carolina, U.S. Representative and Minister to Russia) inherited.

[1] Admitted to Cambridge University in 1803, though it is doubtful if he resided,[5] John Middleton spent a good part of his adult life traveling in France and in Italy.

He attributed more importance to the drawings than the text, but because it appeared during a time of turmoil in Europe, his work received slight attention from contemporaries.

He compiled the sketches from his travels in 1808 and 1809 in order to publish as a folio-sized book, Grecian remains in Italy: a description of Cyclopian walls, and of Roman antiquities.

[6] In 1810, he married Eliza Augusta Falconet, a daughter of Jean Louis de Palézieux-Falconnet, a Swiss banker in Naples, and the former Anna Hunter, an American from Newport, Rhode Island who was the sister of U.S.