Thomas Middleton

My copy of 'The History of Hyde' is one which I inherited from my late father, and on the flyleaf is pasted this cutting from, presumably, the North Cheshire Herald. There's no date on it and I can't find the date of Thomas Middleton's death, but it was obviously some time after 1950.

I notice that the photo is credited to Searle's who also took the photograph of the 1904/05 Mayor of Hyde, John Blackwell, as shown in a recent post.