Brigadier-General John Middleton MP (1678 –1739) was a British Army officer and Scottish Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons almost continuously between 1713 and 1739.
[4] Middleton obtained a commission in the Army in the reign of King William III, and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1706.
He served in Spain in the War of the Spanish Succession, and also on board the fleet, where his company was employed as marines.
He commanded the 25th Regiment in Scotland under the Duke of Argyll during the rebellion of the Earl of Mar, and in 1721 he was rewarded with the colonelcy of that corps.
[4] At the 1715 general election he was defeated at the poll, but petitioned and was seated as Whig MP for Aberdeen Burghs on 22 July 1715.