Mr. George (Count Safroni) Arnold Haynes Middleton —

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Known as Count Safroni, Arnold Safroni Middleton was an publisher, explorer, writer,....

Amongst lots of other things he wrote 'Sailor and Beachcomber' and his grandson has written a biography of this unusual individual. This biography also exists in a narrative form 'A footnote to Stevenson'

'Middleton had three daughters and one son to feed. His first child was stillborn. Joan was born in 1913 Gabrielle in 1915, Hugh in 1919 and Mary in 1921. Often they lived close to poverty. Colby Road was a residence for a sailor-vagabond.'

(from 'A footnote to Stevenson'.)

Perhaps it was a memory of a stillborn child that was responsible for Middleton's poem 'The Dream."

On The Rocks

More About GEORGE MIDDLETON and ALICE ST_JOHN:

Marriage: 27 Jul 1910, Lambeth

GEORGE ARNOLD HAYNES MIDDLETON (1873) TWIN OF WALTER WASHINGTON MIDDLETON was an accomplished musician, composer, author and traveller. There is a further link with the ST_JOHN family: Henry Bolingbroke ST_JOHN, born 1866, son of Vane and Eliza, married 12 October 1885, his first cousin, Alice ST_JOHN born September Q 1854. They had a son, Henry Bolingbroke II born 2 December 1886 and a daughter Alice Eliza ST_JOHN who married George Arnold Haynes MIDDLETON. He went under the name of Arnold SAFRONI-MIDDLETON and his most famous composition is the March "IMPERIAL ECHOES".