John Middleton Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for John Middleton, based on 3 World History Database records associated with Scotland.

3 records1651–16603 events2 places

Chronological biography

1651

Attack on Parliamentarian Battery29 August 1651

Warfare / Civil War · Lieutenant General · Perry Wood

Middleton leads part of a fifteen-hundred-man Royalist sortie against the Parliamentarian artillery, but the attack fails.

1654

Battle of Dalnaspidal19 July 1654

Warfare / Military · Earl · Royalist General · Dalnaspidal

Leads a royalist force for Charles II but is defeated during Glencairn's rising

1660

Peerage1660

Government / Government of Scotland · Earl · Commissioner

Created Earl of Middleton after the Restoration and becomes a leading royal agent in Scotland

Titles and roles

Earl · Commissioner · Earl · Royalist General · Lieutenant General

Record provenance

This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.