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Event description: The stylish villa of Townhill Park House was created in the 18th century for the Middleton family. Nathanial Middleton had retired from the East India Company after making a fortune in India, collecting a vast array of Persian Art and having a family with his Indian mistress. His mixed-race wife inherited her fortune from her father’s Jamaican plantation. What followed next was a National scandal, a trial that dominated the tabloids, bankruptcies , elopements and mental collapse. This talk will cover the rise and fall of the Middleton’s of Townhill Park House
Speaker: Dr Cheryl Butler is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Hon Fellow of the University of Winchester, on the editorial board of the Southampton Records Series, and of the Hampshire Papers. Her most recent publications include two volumes for the Records Series, a paper on the Journal of John Sturdy for Hampshire Papers and First Impressions: Jane Austen’s Southampton Circle 1780-1820 available from http://www.hobnobpress.co.uk. This latter book contains much of the research on the Middleton family who were known to Jane Austen
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