He purchased the lordship of Witnesham from Sir Robert Hitcham, bt in 1630.
According to William Reitwiesner’s site of notable genealogies <
http://www.wargs.com/royal/kate.html>, he, through his son John, is an ancestor of Kate Middleton, now duchess of Cambridge:
John Meadows = Sarah Fairfax
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Philip Meadows = Margaret Hall
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Sarah Meadows = Robert Rankin
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Elizabeth Rankin = Thomas Martineau
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Elizabeth Martineau = Thomas Michael Greenhow
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Frances Elizabeth Greenhow = Francis Lupton
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Francis Martineau Lupton = Harriet Albina Davis
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Olive Christiana Lupton = Richard Noel Lupton
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Peter Francis Middleton = Valerie Glassborow
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Michael Francis Middleton = Carole Elizabeth Goldsmith
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Catherine Elizabeth Middleton.
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