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that estabfeh % ^ nt . Here he was contemporary With Sir Edward Tliortaton , our present amba ^ addr to the court of Sweden ; tfe Rev . GeorgeHichards , D : D .
F . RJ& , authw of the Aboriginal Britons , and Hampton Lectures ; aud Mr . Coleridge the poet > ffcom whose fertile pen has issued a j ^ st tribute of gratitude to die zeal and ability of their tutor .
From Christ ' s Hospital he proceeded , upon one of the school exhibitions , to Pembroke Hall , Cambridge , where he took the degrees of B . A . 1792 ; M . A . 1795 ; and B . and D . D . in 1803 . In March 1792 , after taking the
degree of B . A . and being ordained Deacon , by the then Bishop of Lincoln ( Dr . Prettyniat )) , he entered upon his clerical duties at Gainsborough . In 1794 , he was selected by Dr . John Prettyman , Archdeacon of Lincoln , and brother of the
Bishop , to be tutor to his two sons ; and it was probably to this circumstance that he was indebted for the future patronage of the Bishop , who presented him , in 1795 , to the rectory of Tansor in
Northamptonshire , vacant by the promotion of Dr . John Potter to the see of Killala , in Ireland . About this time he published a periodical essay without his name , entitled " The Country Spectator . "
In 1797 , Dr . Middleton married Elizabeth , eldest daughter of John Maddison , Esq ., of Gainsborough , and of Alvingham , in Lincolnshire . In 1798 , he published " The Blessing and the Curse ; a Thanksgiving on occasion of Lord Nelson's and other
Victories ; " and in 1802 , obtained / roni his former patron the consolidated rectory of Little Bytfiam , with Castle Bytham annexed , which he held with Tansor , by dispensation . In 1808 , Dr . Middleton established his : reputation as a scholar by the publication of his celebrated " Treatise on the
Doctrine of the Greek Article , applied to the Criticism and the Illustration of the New Testament ; " and the following year , « Christ divided : ; a Sermon preached at the Visitation of the Lord Bishop of Lincoln . *' In 1810 , he began to act as a magistrate for the county x > t Northampton ; but in 1811 , resigned his livings in that county , loll , resigned his livings m that county ,
upon being presented , by the same generous patron , to the vicarage of St . Pancias , Middlesex , and Piittenham , Herts ; Mid shortly after took up his residence at the Vicarage-houae , Kentish Town . , In April ; 1 ^ 12 , he was collated by the 18 * J 2 WMjC Wacola * to the Archdeaconry ° f Hun ^ i | g ^ n ; and in the autumn of the 8 a » , 'y » % v he directed hid attentionto tin * deplojpajije Wndttiou of the parish
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of St . Pancra 3 , U > which heiim ^ a population of upwards of 50 ^ 1 * 1 vvith only the ancient very smaH ' v ^ church , which could not accomm ^ Ste a congregation of more * j ^ * &tfr * &n * this occasion he published " An Address to the Parishioners of St . p ^ ahcras , Mid- dlesex , on the intended Application to Parliament ftnr aJJew CliMi : iM Dr .
M iddleton's igfluetice and perseverance caused a Bill , to be brought into Parliament , for powers tb erect a New Church ; but the BHt was lost in the debate upon , the second reading . C . A . acob <
In 1813 , j ^ ie Rer . J i , a German divine * having been , appointed one of the missionaries to India , Dr . Middleton was requested to deliver , before a special meeting of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge , a charge to
the new missionary , previous to his departure . , About this time the friends of the establishment of Christianity in our Eastern dominions , were very active in prevailing upon Government to establish an episcopacy in those vast regions ; and Lord Castlereagh , in a debate on the renewal
of the East India Company's Charter * adverted to the expediency of such aa establishment . It was subsequently enacted * that the Company should be chargeable with certain salaries , to be paid to a bishop and three archdeacons , if it should please His Majesty , by his letters patent ,
to constitute and appoint the same . In the autumn of 1813 , Dr . Middleton re-4 ceived an order to wait upon the ESariof Buckinghamshire , President df the Board of Controul , by whom he ^ ras reQ&mmended to H \ h Royal Highness , the Prince Regent , as the new Bishop of Calcutta . He was consecrated ou the Bth of May ,
1814 , at Lambeth Palace , the Archdeacon of Winchester having pre ^ bed the consecration sermon . On the 17 th of the same month , he attended a special meeting of the Society tot > promoting
Christian Knowledge , to receive * tnefi < valedictory address , delivered by the ttP shop of Chester ; on the 19 th , he w £ * r elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; and on the 8 th of June * took his
departure for Bengal . ^ > Upon bis arrival in India , Dr . Middleton was mainly instrumental in founding the Mission College at Calcutta , for the folio wing purposes : 1 . For instructicigr ttcivc odu uuicr \ nri 9 uiui iu tnc
r ^ > jrvuw doctrine and discipline of the Church of England , in order to their becoming preachers , tatechists , or ecJiool-masterH ;• 2 / Por t ^ a ^ hln ? the etement ^ of Wtmfc knawledge , and the ^ EopW language , * fr < Mussulmans and Hindoos , haviiig no ob ^
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Obituary . ^ I >* . T . F . 3 fiddleto n . 113
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/49/
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