Sir Hugh Myddelton (or Middleton), 1st Baronet (1560-1631) was a Welsh clothmaker, entrepreneur, mine-owner, banker, self-taught engineer and became a successful goldsmith and was appointed Royal Jeweller by King James I. In 1603 succeeded his father as MP for Denbeigh Boroughs, which he remained until 1628. Myddelton is, however, best remembered as the driving force behind the construction of the New River, an ambitious engineering project to bring clean water from the River Lea, near Ware, in Hertfordshire to New River Head, London constructed between 1608 and 1613.

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Sir Hugh Myddelton (or Middleton), 1st Baronet (1560-1631) was a Welsh clothmaker, entrepreneur, mine-owner, goldsmith, banker and self-taught engineer. He became a successful goldsmith and was appointed Royal Jeweller by King James I. In the meantime, he became an alderman and then recorder of Denbigh, and in 1603 succeeded his father as MP for Denbigh Boroughs, which he remained until 1628. Myddelton is, however, best remembered as the driving force behind the construction of the New River, an ambitious engineering project to bring clean water from the River Lea, near Ware, in Hertfordshire to New River Head, London constructed between 1608 and 1613.

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