page_title: Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
section_title: Education and early career
hierarchical_section_title: Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge / Michael Francis Middleton / Education and early career
caption_attribution_description: Clifton College Upper School, Bristol, England. Left - the Dining Hall, centre - the Chapel. Seen from the Close.
context_page_description: Members of the Middleton family have been related to the British royal family by marriage since the wedding of Catherine Middleton and Prince William in April 2011, when she became the Duchess of Cambridge.
context_section_description: Like his father, Peter, and grandfather Noel, Michael Middleton was educated at Clifton College, the public school in Bristol. At Clifton, all three generations of Middleton men boarded at Brown's House. The archives at Clifton record that Michael Middleton was a praepostor, the title for a college prefect. Middleton represented Clifton at rugby in the 1st XV and also gained his tennis colours. 
  Following Clifton, Michael Middleton attended the University of Surrey who conferred the degree of B.Sc (Hons) on him in 1973 according to the entry in the Clifton College Register 1962–1978, published by Clifton College Council in October 1979 with an introduction by then Headmaster and academic historian, Stuart M. Andrews. Middleton then commenced studies for six months at British European Airways' flight school to become a pilot before switching to ground crew where he graduated from the company's own internal course. He then worked for BA as a flight dispatcher.
caption: Clifton College –  the boarding school for generations of Middleton men
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