Editing Arthur Middleton (section)

==Death, family and legacy==
[[File:Coat of Arms of Arthur Middleton.svg|175px|thumb|left|Coat of Arms of Arthur Middleton]]
Middleton died on January 1, 1787, at age 44 and was buried in the family tomb in the Gardens at Middleton Place.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1AnTtyTg5CkC&dq=Gardens+at+Middleton+Place+buried+arthur&pg=PA5104 ''Congressional Record'']</ref> The death notice from the ''State Gazette of South-Carolina'' describes him as a "tender husband and parent, humane master, steady unshaken patriot, the gentleman, and the scholar." The plantation passed to [[Henry Middleton (governor)|Henry]], his eldest son, later governor of South Carolina, U.S. Representative and minister to Russia.

Middleton was an ancestor of actor [[Charles Middleton (actor)|Charles B. Middleton]], who played [[Ming the Merciless]] in the [[Flash Gordon]] movies of the 1930s. Middleton's son-in-law was Congressman [[Daniel Elliott Huger]] who was the grandfather-in-law of Confederate General [[Arthur Middleton Manigault]]. Middleton's sister, Susannah Middleton, was the great-great-grandmother of [[Baldur von Schirach]], onetime leader of the [[Hitler Youth]] and later governor ("Gauleiter" or "Reichsstatthalter") of the Reichsgau Vienna, who was convicted of [[crimes against humanity]] at the [[Nuremberg trials]].

[[File:Middleton-place-tomb-sc1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The tomb of Arthur Middleton at Middleton Place]]
The [[United States Navy]] ship [[USS Arthur Middleton (AP-55)|USS ''Arthur Middleton'' (AP-55/APA-25)]] was named for him.