The son of Sir William Middleton, fifth baronet (1738-1795); educated at Rugby, he was MP for Northumberland (1812-20) and the designer of his admired house and garden at Belsay Hall. Sydney Smith described him as “quick, shrewd, original, well-informed, eccentric, paradoxical, and contradictory.”

REFERENCES TO Sir Charles Miles Lambert Monck, sixth baronet:

Henry Grey Bennet to Thomas Creevey, 13 June 1815 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 8 November 1816 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Sydney Smith to Francis Horner, 25 November 1816 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [25? January] 1819 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, 21 November 1834 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)