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Middleton, Arthur, 1742-1787
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1742-1787
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MIDDLETON, ARTHUR, eldest son of Henry Middleton, Berkley Co. , South Carolina, President of the Provincial Congress of South Carolina, and his first wife Mary, dau. of John Williams, “ a Member of the Commons”; b. 26 Jun 1742; in school list 1754; also at Harrow Sch. ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 May 1759, matr. Lent 1760, scholar 1760; adm. Middle Temple 14 Apr 1757; returned to North America 1763; travelling in England and Italy 1768-70; member, House of Assembly, South Carolina 1764-8, 1772- ; elected to Provisional Congress 1774; signed Declaration of Independence 4 Jul 1776; framed constitution for State of Carolina, but declined office of Governor 12 Mar 1778; taken prisoner at fall of Charleston 1780, and estates sequestrated; released Jul 1781; member of Congress; m. 19 Aug 1764 Mary, dau. of Walter Izard, St. George’s, Berkley Co. ; d. at Gooseneck, South Carolina 1 Jan 1787.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.