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The Middleton family is an English family that has been related to the British royal family by marriage since the wedding of Catherine Middleton to Prince William in April 2011, when she became the Duchess of Cambridge. The couple have three children: George, Charlotte and Louis. Tracing their origins back to the Tudor era, the Middleton family of Yorkshire of the late 18th century were recorded as owning property of the Rectory Manor of Wakefield with the land passing down to solicitor William Middleton who established the family law firm in Leeds which spanned five generations. Some members of the firm inherited woollen mills after the First World War. By the turn of the 20th century, the Middleton family had married into the British nobility and, by the 1920s, the family were playing host to the British royal family. History By the late Georgian era, the Middleton family were established in the West Riding of Yorkshire as cultural and civic figures, particularly in the legal profession. The law firm Messrs Middleton & Sons was founded in Leeds in 1834 by gentleman farmer and solicitor William Middleton, Esq. (1807–1884) of Gledhow Grange-Hawkhills Estate. One of his sons, solicitor Arthur Middleton (1846–1907), inherited Hawkhills from his father. William Middleton's descendants include his grandson (Richard) Noël Middleton (1878–1951), a solicitor, director of the family woollen manufacturing firm and co-founder of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. Noël Middleton's youngest son was Captain Peter Francis Middleton, who was Prince Philip's co-pilot on a tour of South America. Peter Middleton's second son is entrepreneur Michael Francis Middleton, who married Carole Goldsmith in 1980 and subsequently relocated to Berkshire. The couple founded a mail-order supply company, Party Pieces, in 1987, but sold it in May 2023 after it fell into administration. The company was at one point estimated to be worth £30 million, but by the time it collapsed it owed £2.6 million to creditors, including £612,685 owed to HM Revenue and Customs, £218,749 owed to Royal Bank of Scotland for a Coronavirus Business Interruption loan, and £20,430 to an Afghan refugee whose small business was a supplier of helium gas. The company's administrator's report stated that unsecured creditors were unlikely to be paid. The couple's children are: Catherine Elizabeth, Princess of Wales, socialite and columnist Philippa Charlotte Matthews and businessman James William Middleton. The Middletons purchased Bucklebury Manor in 2012. Aristocratic ties Robert Lacey describes the Middleton family as having aristocratic kinship. The Middletons were "friends of British royalty" to whom, in their civic capacity, they "played host as long ago as 1926". The great-grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Noël Middleton, and his elder brother, photographer and civil engineer Captain William Middleton (1874–1940) reportedly wed their fiancées in Leeds at Mill Hill Chapel in the years before the First World War. Mrs William Middleton (née Agnes Clara Talbot) was the niece of Sir James Kitson, 1st Baronet (later 1st Baron Airedale), who led the chapel's congregation at this time, while Mrs Noël Middleton (née Olive Christiana Lupton) was the first cousin-once-removed of Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton), and the second cousin of Baroness Airedale (née Florence von Schunck) and of Lady Bullock (née Barbara Lupton). Two of the grandchildren of William Middleton (1807–1884) were solicitor Henry Dubs Middleton (1880–1932), a Charterhouse alumnus, and Gertrude Middleton (1876–1942), educated at St Leonards School, who were both students at the University of Oxford between 1899 and 1903; Gertrude, the "wealthy" sister of Noël Middleton, studied at St Anne's College while her cousin studied law at University College. Henry served as Chairman of Leeds General Infirmary where he played host to Princess Mary in 1932. He was married to golfer Jane Middleton (née Berney) (1878–1964), a daughter of Sir Henry Hanson Berney, 9th Baronet. Their sons were Ralph Middleton (1908–1990), who was, like their father, a solicitor who later headed the family law firm, and cricketer Cecil Middleton (1911–1984).They were educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford. Family law and woollen manufacturing firms Many relatives of Michael Middleton (father of the Princess of Wales) were solicitors in the Leeds-based family firm, Messrs Middleton & Sons. His grandfather Noël Middleton, great-grandfather John William Middleton, Esq. (1839–1887),and great-great-grandfather William Middleton, Esq., as well as many other Middleton relatives, were all solicitors at the law firm which William had established in 1834. William Middleton's great-grandson John Alfred Middleton (later Middleton-Joy, 1895–1975) was the son of Gilbert Middleton (1865–1921), a church soloist (the Church of St Oswald, Filey and St Chad's Church, Far Headingley) and solicitor. John Alfred Middleton studied at Winchester College where he was a substitute in the college's First XI in the 1914 Eton Match. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford where he gained a legal qualification (Jurisprudence). He married Dorothea, daughter of Judge Thomas D. Beighton. Middleton and his wife were members of Ascot Heath. Reportedly one of "the keenest women in Leeds on horse-racing matters", Mrs John Alfred Middleton-Joy and her husband dined alongside fellow racing enthusiasts Princess Mary and her husband, the Earl of Harewood, at a Tangiers hotel in February 1934. John Middleton-Joy's elder brother, solicitor Alan Lomas Middleton (1893–1970) was, like his brother, an Oxford graduate. Alan and their father Gilbert, a Cheltenham College alumni, were members of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club as was Gilbert's brother Noël Middleton. Alan's son David Middleton (died 2023) attended Winchester and then went up to New College, Oxford University after which he was a solicitor at the family law firm and President of the Leeds Law Society. David attended the wedding at Westminster Abbey in April 2011 of Catherine Middleton – his second cousin, once removed – to Prince William. Noël Middleton was a director of William Lupton & Co., the Leeds textile manufacturing firm his wife, Olive, had inherited in 1921. His two elder sons, Christopher Maurice Middleton (later Lupton)—an alumnus of Cambridge University's Emmanuel College—and Anthony John Middleton, worked at the family's manufacturing firm. Described by Tina Brown as being at the "top level of the legal profession in Leeds", Middleton & Co. existed for over 150 years, closing in 1985. Michael Middleton's niece, Lucy Middleton, is a London-based solicitor and a godparent of Prince Louis. Parents of Michael Middleton Michael Middleton's father was commercial pilot and RAF officer Captain Peter Francis Middleton (1920–2010). His boyhood in Leeds saw Peter Middleton share a governess with his second co.... Discover the K L Middleton popular books. Find the top 100 most popular K L Middleton books.