Richard Middleton (sometimes Richard of MiddletonStaff "Lord chancellors of England and Great Britain" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' or Richard de Middleton; died 7 August 1272) was an English ecclesiastic and

Lord Chancellor The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ra ...

of England. Middleton was appointed Lord Chancellor on 29 July 1269. He was out of office before his death, but his successor

Walter de Merton Walter de Merton ( – 27 October 1277) was Lord Chancellor of England, Archdeacon of Bath, founder of Merton College, Oxford, and Bishop of Rochester. For the first two years of the reign of Edward I he was – in all but name – Regent of En ...

is first mentioned in the office on 29 November 1272.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 85 On 5 January 1270 Middleton was given the living of the church at Hemingbrough in the East Riding of

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by the cathedral chapter of

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. He was also

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, occurring in that office on 23 September 1271 and in 1272.Greenway
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2, Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces): Durham: Archdeacons: Northumberland
' Middleton died on 7 August 1272. He had a son, Gilbert, who was dead by 1291, and a grandson, also named Gilbert, who was executed for treason in 1318.Prestwich 2004

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Middleton, Richard Archdeacons of Northumberland Lord chancellors of England Year of birth unknown 1272 deaths