George Broke-Middleton
Admiral Sir George Nathaniel Broke-Middleton, 3rd Baronet CB (26 April 1812 – 14 January 1887) was a British Royal Navy officer.
Life
Broke-Middleton was the second son of
On 4 February 1855, he succeeded to his older brother's baronetcy.
Death and legacy
Broke-Middleton died unmarried in 1887, and the baronetcy became extinct. His Suffolk estates were inherited by a niece, Lady de Saumarez, formerly Jane Anne Broke, the daughter of his brother Captain Charles Acton Broke. In 1882, she had married James Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez, and the estates thus passed into the Saumarez family.[9]
References
- ^ John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 1 (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832), p.151
- ^ Naval service record of George Nathaniel Broke-Middleton RN http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1591 (Accessed 1 June 2015)
- ^ "No. 22797". The London Gazette. 15 December 1863. p. 6541.
- ^ "No. 23603". The London Gazette. 1 April 1870. p. 2007.
- ^ "No. 24411". The London Gazette. 30 January 1877. p. 437.
- ^ ThePeerage.com (entry #524852) http://www.thepeerage.com/p52486.htm#i524852 (Accessed 1 June 2015)
- ^ "No. 21743". The London Gazette. 10 July 1855. p. 2654.
- ^ "No. 22404". The London Gazette. 17 July 1860. p. 2655.
- ^ Walford Dakin Selby, ed., The Genealogist, vol. 23 (1907), p. 143: "He on his uncle's decease in 1860, assumed the additional name of Middleton, and dying s.p. on 19th January 1887, the property devolved upon his niece, Jane Anne Broke, the daughter of his deceased brother, Captain Charles Acton Broke, 11. E. (ob. 1855). She, on 10th October 1882, became the wife of Sir James St Vincent, fourth Baron de Saumarez."