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MYDDELTON (or MIDDLETON), SIR HUGH, BART . (C. 1560-1631), contractor of the New River scheme for supplying London with water, was a younger son of Sir Richard Myddelton
governor of Denbigh Castle. Hugh became a successful Londongoldsmith, occupying a shop in Bassihaw, or Basinghall Street; he made money by commercial ventures on the Spanish main, being associated in these with Sir Walter Raleigh; and he was also interested in cloth-making. He was an alderman, and then recorder of Denbigh, and was member of parliament for this borough from 1603 to 1628. In 1609 Myddelton
corporation of London the projected scheme for supplying the city with water obtained from springs near Ware, in Hertfordshire
financial
work
governor of the company, which, however, was not a financial
One of Sir Hugh's brothers was Sir Thomas Myddelton (c. 1550-1631), lord mayor of London, and another was William Myddelton (c. 1556-1621), poet and seaman, whe died at Antwerp on the 27th of March 1621. Sir Thomas was a member of parliament under Queen Elizabeth and was chosen lord mayor on the 29th of September 1613, the day fixed for the opening of the New River. Under James I. and Charles I. he represented the city of London in parliament, and he helped Rowland Heylyn to publish the first popular edition of the Bible in Welsh. He died on the 12th of August 1631. Sir Thomas's son and heir , Sir Thomas Myddelton 1586-1666), was a member of the Long Parliament, being an adherent of the popular party. After the outbreak of the Civil War he served in Shropshire and in north Wales, gaining a signal success over the royalists at Oswestry in July 1644, and another at Montgomery in the following September. In 1659, however, he joined the rising of the royalists under Sir George Booth, and in August of this year he was forced to surrender his residence, Chirk Castle. His eldest son, Thomas (d. 1663), was made a baronet in 1660, a dignity which became extinct when William the 4th baronet died in 1718.End of Article: MYDDELTON (or MIDDLETON), SIR HUGH, BART If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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