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MONTAGU, JOHN, 4th EARL OF SANDWICH, eldest son of Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbroke MP, Col. 37th Foot, Lord Lieut. Huntingdonshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Alexander Popham, Littlecote, Wilts.; b. 3 Nov 1718; styled Lord Montagu to 1729; in under school lists 1726, 1727 (as Lord Montague); adm. Eton 1728; succeeded grandfather as 3rd Earl of Sandwich 20 Oct 1729; Trinity Coll. Cambridge; Grand Tour 1737-40 (France, Italy, Mediterranean); officer in Army; Col. 22 Nov 1745; 1745; Major-Gen. 12 Mar 1755; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Feb 1759; Gen. 26 May 1772; a Lord of the Admiralty Dec 1744 – Feb 1747/8; Minister Plenipotentiary, Breda 1746, The Hague 1746-9, Aix-la-Chapelle 1748; First Lord of the Admiralty Feb 1747/8 – Jun 1751; Privy Councillor 1 Feb 1749; Joint Vice-Treasurer for Ireland Dec 1755 – Feb 1763; Ambassador to Madrid Feb 1763, but did not take up appointment; First Lord of the Admiralty Apr – Aug 1763; Secretary of State, Northern Dept., Aug 1763 – Jul 1765; Postmaster-General Jan 1768 – Dec 1770; Secretary of State, Southern Dept., Dec 1770 – Jan 1771; First Lord of the Admiralty 12 Jan 1771 – Mar 1782; Ranger of St. James’s Park and Hyde Park 1783; FRS 1740; FSA 1746; m. 7 Mar 1740/1 Hon. Judith Fane, third dau. of Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane (I); d. 30 Apr 1792.

Montagu, The Hon. Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, brother of Stuart Albert Samuel Montagu (q.v.), 3rd Baron Swaythling; b. April 23, 1904; adm. Sept. 27, 1917; K.S. (non-resident) 1918 (G); left July 1919; Royal Coll. of Science, London Univ.; King's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1924; a zoologist, film technician and journalist; M.A. 1930; secretary of the World Peace Council; awarded the Order of Liberation (1st class) of Bulgaria 1952; a Lenin Peace Prize at Moscow 1959; Order of the Pole Star, Mongolian People's Republic, April 22, 1961; president of the International Table Tennis Federation and the English Table Tennis Assn.; author of Land of Blue Sky, A Portrait of Modern Mongolia (1956); m. Jan. 10, 1927, Eillen, daughter of Francis Anton Hellstern; d. 5 Nov. 1984.

MONTAGU, HON. CHARLES, brother of Hon. Edward Montagu (at school 1661-2, qv); b. ; at school 1662-3 (boarder with Head Master) (Busby’s Account Book); Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1664 [check] , matr. Lent 1663; MA 1665; adm. Middle Temple 30 Apr 1667; d. abroad 1673.

MONTAGU, HON. HENRY, brother of Hon. Edward Montagu (at school 1661-2, qv); b.; at school 1661 (boarder with Head Master) (Busby’s Account Book); Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1662; MA 1662 (incorp. Oxford 1666); adm. Middle Temple 24 Jun 1663, called to bar 1 May 1668; d. 1681.

MONTAGU, HON. EDWARD, eldest son of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester PC KG, and his third wife Essex, widow of Sir Richard Bevill, Kt, and dau. of Sir Thomas Cheek, Kt, Pirgo, Essex; b.; at school 1661-2 (boarder with Head Master) (Busby’s Account Book); Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1662; MA 1662; adm. Middle Temple 10 Nov 1664; d. before Mar 1674.

MONTAGU, HON. EDWARD, elder son of Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton, and Anne, dau. of Sir Ralph Winwood, Kt, Ditton Park, Bucks.; b. 1635; adm.; a boarder with Head Master (letter from Lady Elizabeth Winwood to 2nd Baron Montagu, HMC Montagu of Beaulieu, 162, 163, 165; cf. Elizabethan viii, 108); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Jun 1651; migrated to Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 25 Sep 1651, matr. 1652; MA Oxford 9 Sep 1661; a medium of communication between his cousin Edward Montagu (1st Earl of Sandwich), then commanding the Channel Fleet, and Charles II Apr 1660; MP Sandwich from May 1661; Master of Horse to Queen Catharine; Fuller, in dedicating the eleventh book of his Church History to Montagu, writes “You was bred in that school which has no superior in England; and successively in those two universities which have no equal in Europe”; killed at Bergen, Norway, in an attack on the Dutch East Indian Fleet 3 Aug 1665. DNB.

MONTAGU, EDWARD WORTLEY, illegitimate son of Edward Wortley Montagu (b. 1713, qv), and Elizabeth Ashe (whom he had married bigamously in 1751); b.; adm. (Burges); KS (aged 11) 1763; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1768, matr. 1 Jun 1768, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1768 – void 24 Jun 1772 (already absent from Christ Church at 21 Dec 1771); punished for riot and not giving up collections 15 Dec 1769; Cadet, EICS Madras 12 Jun 1771; “joined the Infantry on arrival at Fort St. George” [presumably Native Infantry, check]; res. 31 Jul 1777, on hearing of his father’s death, and set off for England; by his will dated 25 Nov 1777 he bequeathed his father’s MSS to John English Dolben (qv), with the request that the profits that should arise from their publication should be given to his old dame, Mrs Anne Burges, formerly of Great Smith Street, Westminster, “as a small acknowledgement for the more than motherly kindness with which she treated me during the ten years I was in her house while at Westminster School”; drowned in the shipwreck of the vessel in which he was returning home 1777. Mural monument to his memory, erected by Dolben, in West Cloister.

MONTAGU, EDWARD WORTLEY, eldest son of Edward Wortley Montagu (b. 1678, qv); b. May 1713; inoculated for smallpox at Belgrade 18 Mar 1718, being the first native of this country to undergo that operation; at school under Freind (Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, iv, 626-7); ran away more than once; sent to the West Indies under charge of a tutor; returned to England c. 1733; Grand Tour (Italy) 1740; Leyden Univ., adm. 6 Sep 1741; studied Arabic and European languages; Cornet, 7th Dragoons 1743; Capt. -Lieut., 1st Foot 1745; retd. 1748; served at battle of Fontenoy; MP Huntingdonshire 1747-54, Bossiney 1754-68; one of the Secretaries at Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748; Society of Dilettanti 1749; FRS 31 May 1750; FSA 17 Dec 1761; successfully sued by Abraham Payba for cheating at faro in Paris 1751; finally left England early in 1761; travelled in Italy, Egypt and Palestine; adopted Islamic dress and professed Islamic beliefs, but died a Roman Catholic, into which church he had been received at Jerusalem 29 Oct 1764 (Notes and Queries, 4th series, xi, 7-8); author, Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republics, 1759, and other works; m. in or after 1733 “a handsome honest laundress older than himself, of whom he got tired in a few weeks” (but he paid her a small annuity until his death) (Doran, In and about Drury Lane, 1881, ii, 288, 324); subsequently went through the ceremony of marriage several times, and left several illegitimate children for whom he provided in his will, including a black boy; d. at Padua, Italy, from effects of swallowing a fishbone, 29 Apr 1776. DNB.

MONTAGU, EDWARD WORTLEY, brother of Francis Wortley (qv) ; b. 8 Feb 1678 ; at school under Busby (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1730/1) ; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 2 Aug 1693, matr. 1693/4; adm. Middle Temple 25 Jul 1693, Inner Temple 8 Feb 1705/6; Grand Tour (Italy) 1700-1, 1703-4; MP Huntingdon 1705-13, Westminster 1715-22, Huntingdon 1722-34, Peterborough from 1734; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 13 Oct 1714 – Oct 1715; Ambassador to Constantinople 5 Jun 1716 – recalled 28 Oct 1717; his appointment was in order to effect a reconciliation between the Emperor and the Turks; returned to England 1718; the friend of Addison and of Steele, who dedicated to him the second volume of The Tatler; satirized by Pope in his Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace; his wife went abroad in 1739, and they did not meet again; lived on his estate at Wharncliffe and devoted himself to amassing money; he seems to have been known both as Edward Wortley and as Edward Wortley Montagu; lic. to m. 12 Aug 1712 Lady Mary Pierrepont (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter writer : see DNB), eldest dau. of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston; d. 22 Jan 1761.