Nathaniel Middleton

[3] In 1774 Hastings was overruled in his policy by the Bengal Council and a combination of John Clavering, Philip Francis and George Monson.

[1] Middleton, who had married in 1780, left the East India Company's service in 1784 and returned to England, having requested leave to depart on the Barwell from Hastings.

[6] His business contacts included the Dutch East India Company, and he received a large related payment through the London counting-house Rumbold, Charlton & Raikes.

[8] Bringing home an Indian fortune, Middleton became one of the reputed group of civilian nabobs in Great Britain, mentioned with Richard Barwell, Paul Benfield, Thomas Rumbold, and Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet.

[15] When called upon in 1788 to testify at the parliamentary proceeding against Warren Hastings, Middleton repeatedly fended off questions on events in India by replying that he couldn't remember.

[17] F. P. Lock considers that Middleton's extensive ducking of the questions he faced over four days, particularly on extortion of treasure by the Begum, on balance told against Hastings: it was other witnesses who helped the defence.

[18] Sheridan summed up the begum charge evidence, which turned largely on Middleton's testimony, over four separate days in early June 1788.

[16] Nathaniel William Wraxall in his memoirs called Middleton a lucus a non lucendo, and alluded to the "mi non ricordo" of the trial of Queen Caroline, as employed by Theodore Majocchi.

[1] Further support came from Josiah Wedgwood, father of John, and Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, but the bank was wound up in 1816.

[26] A week after Anne was wed, her sister Sarah married William Cator, a business associate of her brother Robert who was in Bengal as a lawyer.

Around 1816, when the bank folded, Anne who was living in Bath, Somerset with her widowed sister Sarah, began suffering from mental illness.

[31] The eldest son of Nathaniel and Anne Middleton was Hastings Nathaniel Middleton, who after his father's death in 1807 became a partner in the family bank, by then known as Alexander Davison & Co. Hastings married Emily Purling, daughter of Charles Purling of the East India Company, went to live in Tunbridge Wells in reduced circumstances, and died in 1821, leaving an eldest son (c.1810–1898) of the same name who became a barrister.

[31][32][33] Emily's brother John Charles Purling married Harriet Anne, sister of Hastings, in 1806.

[40] Other daughters included: A grave in Dacca recorded the death at age 13 months of Frances Anne Middleton, on 30 October 1784.