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- of Lenton, near Nottingham, was a solicitor and banker in that town in partnership with Francis Evans, esquire; he was born about the year 1767, and died suddenly at Lenton, 6 October, 1815, aged forty-eight, two days after the death of his partner ; his m. i. is on a tablet in the chancel at Orston.
" In a vault near this place is deposited the body of WILLIAM RICHARD MIDDLEMORE, Esq., 2nd son of W. R. Middlemore, Esq.., late of Grantham in the County of Lincoln. After a short illness of 3o hours, previous to which he appeared in perfe& health, he died on the 6th day of Octobey, 1815, aged 48. Behold an Instance of the Instability of Human Enjoyments, learn hence an important lesson, seek your Saviour while it is called to-day, tomorrow may not be yours. This monument was erected by his widow, Susanna, Daughter of John Mathews, Esq., of Tynemouth, Northumberland, by whom he left no issue."
The adjoining monument to Mrs. Middlemore is of similar style.
He was admitted a solicitor and attorney in November, 1787. His firm was at first Evans and Middlemore, and later Evans, Middlemore and Piercy. The legal business, afterwards Percy, Goodall and Brown, is still carried on by Mr. J. T. Brown, the surviving partner, while the banking business is represented by Moore and Robinson's Bank, He married Susanna, daughter of John Mathews, of Tynemouth, Northumberland, esquire, but left no issue.
After her husband's death she resided at Orston Hall, about fourteen miles from Nottingham, and not far from Hawkesworth where the Storers were settled. She died at Orston, 28 August, 1849, aged seventy-four, and was buried there ; m. i. in the chancel. Her benevolence still remains a tradition in the village of Orston. The organ in the chancel there bears an inscription stating that it was given by Mrs. Middlemore. From her will it appears that she was possessed of real estate in Orston, Thoroton, Hawkesworth, and Mansfield, the proceeds of which, after payment of legacies, were distributed amongst the five children of George Middlemore.
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