James William Middleton is an English businessman and member of the Middleton family.
Background
Middleton was born in 1987 in Reading at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, the youngest child and only son of Michael Francis Middleton (born 23 June 1949), formerly a British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Goldsmith (born 31 January 1955), formerly flight attendant. His father came from a long line of solicitors who resided in Leeds, in Yorkshire, and one of James" great-grandmothers, Olive Middleton (1881-1936), was a member of the Lupton family who are described by the City of Leeds archives as "landed gentry. A business and political dynasty".
Education
Middleton was educated at Street Andrew"s School, Pangbourne, followed by Marlborough College.
Career
Middleton runs the Cake Kit Company, which makes themed cakes and cake-making kits for birthdays and other occasions. He is the only brother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and read the lesson at her wedding to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Middleton"s cake-making business was inspired by reading that a mother"s baking is a highly evocative childhood memory – he has said that he wanted to supply baking kits so home bakers would be able to get all the ingredients in one place for adventurous creations such as "football cakes".
He started baking himself, using the family kitchen, then expanded into a freight container and his business now bakes in converted barns.
Themed cakes are baked for companies such as Jigsaw, 3 and Ralph Lauren. Middleton was said to have caused "shudders" at Buckingham Palace after taking part in the Hello magazine photoshoot, making 21 different cakes each was iced with one of the magazine"s memorable front pages, including an image of Diana, Princess of Wales.
In April 2011 he registered three more businesses: Nice Cakes, Nice Wine and Nice Group London and has indicated that he plans to further expand the Cake Kit Company. Middleton also co-created Boomf, a company that makes marshmallows with edible pictures on them.
In February 2015, Middleton said that "my work focus at the moment is just on Boomf".
lieutenant was reported in August 2015 that the company had raised £1million in funding. This was the Romans chapter 12, verses 1–2 and 9–18. The reading was from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible rather than the traditional King James Version.
Through his father"s gentry Lupton lineage, Middleton is descended from Sir Thomas Fairfax (d1520), whose wife, Agnes Gascoigne, was a descendant of King Edward III. On his mother"s side, he is descended from Sir Thomas Conyers, 9th Baronet (1731-1810), himself a descendant of King Edward IV.