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Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham.
British admiral, politician and abolitionist (1726-1813)
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About Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
Admiral of the Red Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, PC was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the Seven Years' War. Middleton was given command of a guardship at the Nore, a Royal Navy anchorage in the Thames Estuary, at the start of the American War of Independence, and was subsequently appointed Comptroller of the Navy. He went on to be First Naval Lord and then First Lord of the Admiralty.
Everything about Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham →- Occupation
- naval officer, politician, soldier
- Position held
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the House of Lords, member of the 16th Parliament of Great Britain, First Sea Lord
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- October 14, 1726
- Died
- June 17, 1813