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* Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton: 24 August 1684 – 28 October 1688
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Comptroller of the Navy Sir Charles Middleton explained to Prime Minister Pitt in a letter of 5 September 1786: “ It is for Hemp only we are dependent on Russia.
In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton.
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles B. Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon played the central roles.
A City of London Corporation plaque commemorating the station's construction hangs on the wall of the adjoining former Great Eastern Hotel, which was designed by Charles Barry, Jr. ( son of Sir Charles Barry ) and his brother Edward Middleton Barry, and also built by Mowlem.
Granted by the Masonian Proprietors in 1749, the town was named after Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, who was in charge of convoy service between Barbados and the colonies.
Eldest son Charles Barry ( junior ) ( 1823 – 1900 ) designed Dulwich College and park in south London and rebuilt Burlington House ( home of the Royal Academy ) in central London's Piccadilly ; Edward Middleton Barry ( 1830 – 1880 ) completed the Parliament buildings and designed the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden ; Godfrey Walter Barry ( 1834 – 1868 ) became a surveyor ; Sir John Wolfe-Barry ( 1836 – 1918 ) was the engineer for Tower Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge.
He was also an ancestor of actor Charles B. Middleton, who played Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon movies of the 1930s.
From 1808 he became agent to Charles John Brandling, who owned collieries on his Middleton estate near Leeds and whose family came from Felling.
The present house was completed in 1873 by his nephew, Charles Combe, to a design by Edward Middleton Barry: it has now been divided into apartments.
Colbatch brought an action against him, and Middleton wrote a longer and more temperate rejoinder ( possibly helped by Charles Ashton ).
Middleton let the matter drop after meeting Mead socially ; but two related works, an Appendix seu Definitiones, pars secunda and a letter from Middleton to another opponent, Charles La Motte, were later published in 1761 by William Heberden the elder.
Middleton contributed the homage to Led Zeppelin, " Led Boots ," and Beck chose to interpret the Charles Mingus ode to saxophonist Lester Young, " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ," from the classic jazz album Mingus Ah Um.
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In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.
On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he again commanded the Saxons, who were included in the 2nd army under Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, his old opponent.
* 1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1782 )
* 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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* Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Republican Congressman for New Jersey's 2nd district ( 1967 – 1975 ) and Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey ( 1973 )
* March 27 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* July 1 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1730 )
* May 15 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet ( i. e., prime minister ).
* May 13 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1782 )
* December 12 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, is demoted from his office as Secretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government and replaced by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.
* November 22 – The Whig Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey succeeds Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* January 21 – Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England ( b. 1661 )
The first of these was from 1835, when Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Baron Yarborough gave a bust of Newton to the Mechanics ' Institute in Lincoln.
* May 18 – Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, English aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron ( d. 1750 )
* November 5 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician ( b. c. 1659 )
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