Description:Here we Sir John Throgmorton Middlemore, 1st Baronet (9 June 1844 - 17 October 1925) an English Liberal Unionist politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham North. In this picture he is surrounded by some of the children that he helped. He was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in 1899 following the resignation of the sitting Birmingham North MP, William Kenrick.[2] Middlemore held the seat until constituency was abolished at the 1918, and did not stand for election again.
He was made a Baronet on 27 May 1919, of Selly Oak, Worcestershire. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet.
Between 1873 and 1932 Middlemore resettled 5,000 children from homes that he ran and workhouses in Birmingham to various parts of Canada and later Australia.