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Mr Walter Washington Houghton Middleton — |
Walter Washington Middleton
Prefix:
Mr
First Name:
Walter
Middle Names:
Washington Houghton
Last Name:
Middleton
Father: Charles Sharp Middleton I
Mother: Amy Ann Haynes
at: 134 Walworth Road, London, England
at: Gillingham, Kent, England
Education: Whitgift Sch. Croydon /Dulwich College
Walter Washington Middleton has 4 children listed here: • Eva Winifred Middleton • Leonard Walter Middleton • Robert Charles Middleton • Roma Eleanor Middleton
- Married Winifred Guyatt at: Greenwich, England on 07 Jul 1916
Biography
Source
Walter attended a mining school in London prior to travelling to Australia where he lived for sixteen years working in the Western Australian gold fields at Coolgardie. He returned home in 1910 for a short stay before taking up a post as mine manager for a company named A. Rudeberg in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). It was in the Gold Coast that he contracted malaria from which he suffered periodic bouts for the rest of his life. He returned home during the Great War and married Winifred in 1916. Having a lifetime interest in herbal remedies, he opened a herb and health food shop in Chatham. The business which included a busy postal service flourished and he soon opened other shops in Maidstone and Gillingham. The death of his wife in 1938 and the start of the Second World War saw a decline in trade and the shop closed upon his death in 1943.