Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (born 1726)

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham

British admiral, politician and abolitionist (1726–1813)

Admiral 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…