Frederick Dobson Middleton

Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton (* November 4, 1825 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, † January 25, 1898 in London, England) was a British general and served at different places of the British Empire. He is best known for his role in the Northwest Rebellion in Canada. From 1884 to 1890 he was commander of the British colonial army in Canada. During the Northwest Rebellion in 1885, he first suffered a defeat at the Battle of Fish Creek, but was able to defeat the numerically more than one to two inferior and much worse armed insurgent Métis in the Battle of Batoche short time later. For this he was beaten in the same year by Queen Victoria knighted. In 1890, he stumbled over a scandal involving stolen merchandise during the rebellion of a Métis, resigned his commission and returned to England. In London, he was appointed Keeper of the Crown Jewels and died in 1898 at the same location.