Michael Middleton (priest)

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{{Portal|Christianity}}Michael John Middleton{{cite web|url=http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/8028720/THE-VENERABLE-MICHAEL-JOHN-MIDDLETON |title=MICHAEL JOHN MIDDLETON - SWINDON - ARCHDEACON OF SWINDON |publisher=checkcompany.co.uk|accessdate=16 Dec 2015}} (born 21 July 1940) was Archdeacon of SwindonEgg on face M J. Middleton. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 26 March 1997; pg. 19; Issue 65847] from 1992 to 1997Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing {{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}}

He was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge.‘MIDDLETON, Rev. Canon Michael John’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Nov 2015 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U27399, accessed 16 Dec 2015] He was ordained deacon in 1966; and priest in 1967. After a curacy at St George, Jesmond he was Chaplain at St George's Grammar School, Cape Town from 1969 to 1972. Returning to England he was at King's School Tynemouth from 1972 to 1977; Vicar of St George, Jesmond from 1977 to 1985; and Rector of Hexham from 1985 to 1992.