Robert Myddelton (or Middleton) (c. 1563 – 1616) was a Welsh politician who served as MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and the City of London in the Parliament of England.
He became involved in Merchant Adventurer shipping cloth to Germany and was one of the original investors in the East India Company, jointly investing £500 with Bateman and his brother Sir Thomas in 1599.
[1] In May 1604, Myddleton acquired the receivership of Crown lands in Dorset and Somerset from Alderman Sir Thomas Smythe, but he quickly passed them onto Lionel Cranfield (later 1st Earl of Middlesex), another London merchant.
Together, they were the parents of ten sons, five of whom predeceased him, and four daughters, including:[4] After the death of his first wife, Myddelton was married to Eleanor (née Saltonstall) Harvie (1554–c.
Eleanor, the widow of Vincent Harvie, was a daughter of Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Saltonstall and the former Suzanna Poyntz.