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Mr. Charles Sharp Middleton I — |
Charles Sharp Middleton I
Prefix:
Mr.
First Name:
Charles
Middle Names:
Sharp
Last Name:
Middleton
Suffix:
I
Father: Saffory Middleton II
Mother: Barbara Crockford
at: St Luke, Old Street, Finsbury, England
Charles Sharp Middleton I has 12 children listed here: • Amy Helen Cornelia Middleton • Arnold Safroni Middleton • Charles Sharp Middleton II • Clara Rose Middleton • Gerald Massey Haynes Middleton II • Gerald Massey Middleton I • Henry James St.John Middleton • Horace Middleton • Mortimor Middleton • Nellie Edith Middleton • Percy Middleton • Walter Washington Middleton
- Married Helen Cornelia St.John at: St Martin’s-in-the-Field, England on 10 Dec 1856
- Married Amy Ann Haynes at: Lee Parish Church, Lewisham, London, England on 25 Feb 1863[2]
Biography
SourceIn 1861, Charles Sharp, with sons Percy,3, and James St John Middleton,2,was living with housekeeper Amy Ann Haynes. By 1871, they were married.
Charles Sharp Middleton had been a poet, journalist and biographer. He wrote the first biography of Shelley. ‘Shelley and Hiis Writings (Thomas Cautley Newby 1858) and there is a mention of Middleton in ‘Alibone’s Dictionary of Authors.’
Middleton, Charles S. 1. Hours of Recreation: Poems, Lon., 1848, fp. 8vo. 2. Shelley and his Writings, l858, 2 vols. 8vo. “.. Never was there a more perfect specimen of biography." W.S. LANDOR .. Mr. Middleton has done good servlce."--Lon. Athm. .Also commended by the Somerset Times, Sporting Press, I. Chamber's Jour., Scotch Press, Lon. S. Times, M. Post, Daily News. Mercury, and The Leader. See Lon. Athen., ' 1858. 157, 174. 243. 249. 347. .'"
But Charles Middleton’s career had been that of a coachbuilder. In later life, he returned to his profession and supported his growing family by editing a coachbuilding journal that had been the ‘Autocar’ of it’s day. The journal is mentioned in Nell’s notebooks when she recalls their cottage at Brasted just after her father's death:
'My mother was living on Brasted Chart in the house my father had bought. It had views right across the country - abutting onto Colonel Tipping’s land. The house was full of beautiful china, silver and cut glass which we had at ‘Einhallow’. My poor mother was selling it bit by bit in order to keep going until she could get enough votes to have a pension. A Mr Attenburg took over the coachbuilders’ ‘art journal’ of which my father had been the sole editor and my mother gave him a present of two hundred and fifty of the journals which were full of articles which my father had written.'
An edition of the journal came up for sale on ebay. [3] It refered to"“THE COACHBUILDERS', HARNESS MAKERS' & SADDLERS’ART JOURNAL,”
Middleton began the journal in circa 1879 and retired from editorship in 1894 due to ill health. On his retirement he received a glowing testimonial from his colleagues in the coachbuilding trade. His daughter Nell, recalled that her mother received a pension from the coachbuilder's benevolent fund for many years after her husband's death.
Genealogy
SourceMore About CHARLES MIDDLETON:
More About CHARLES MIDDLETON and AMY HAYNES:
Marriage: 25 Feb 1863, Lee Parish Church, Lewisham
More About CHARLES MIDDLETON and AMY HAYNES:
Marriage: 25 Feb 1863, Lee Parish Church, Lewisham CHARLES SHARP MIDDLETON married his first wife HELEN CORDELIA ST_JOHN on 10th December 1856 at the Parish Church of St Marylebone. She died 2 years later They had two children HENRY ST_JOHN MIDDLETON (known as HARRY) born Dec 1958 (His mother died shortly after his birth) PERCY MIDDLETON born 4th November 1857 at 40 Long Acre, London. Percy died aged 19 in 1877 These were both christened together in Basingstoke, Hampshire on 31st January 1867 Charles later married AMY ANN HAYNES.
CHARLES SHARP MIDDLETON (1827) was christened on 4th February 1827 at St Luke, Old Street, Finsbury. He died Apr/May/June at Sevenoaks aged 70 Volume 2a page 359
CHARLES SHARP MIDDLETON AND AMY ANN HAYNES Married Lewisham Jan/Feb/Mar 1863 Volume 1d 819
- ↑ Death registered Jun Q. 1896, age 70, Sevenoaks (registry book 2a page 359)
- ↑ Marriage registered Mar Q. 1863, Lewisham (registry book 1d page 819)
- ↑ Sale item on E.BAY circa mid September 2007
Booknumber: 7325 [COACH BUILDING]. - The Coach Builders' Harness Makers and Saddlers' Art Journal. Vol. VII. London, J. & C. Cooper 1886-7. quarto half morocco; [4],138,16,[2] pp, some 78 plates of which eight are large folding working drawings, 31 are coloured lithograph elevations of carriage designs (some two to a sheet), seven are designs for monograms and the rest are b/w lithographs of carriage designs (some folding); numerous ills through the text. The first large working drawing repaired along the folds, some odd spots but a rather good copy with title, preface and index.. ~ A complete year and a bit of this splendid and quite rare trade journal - the first issue of volume VIII is bound at the end. Each of the seven issues provides a working drawing (a bonus is the large plate and description for trimming a Victoria phaeton), a number of designs for tradesmen's carriages and carts (a new departure, made in this volume), the coloured designs (and not called for in the index is one of stripes in yellow and blue), a plate of monograms and a wealth of technical, artistic and practical detail and notes of invention and innovation. The year begins with a note of hope after finding that "depression.. has weighed upon the carriage building industry in every part of the country" - this optimism, it seems, largely based on the report of a hundred million pounds offered to support a speculation to supply beer to the British public; assuring the editor that "capitalists have faith in our beer drinking capacities and the means we possess for indulging them". Harnesses and saddles, by the way, are nowhere mentioned. AUD $2000.00(= approx US$1500.00)