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MONTAGU, HON. OLIVER, third son of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich KG PC, and Hon. Jemima Crewe, dau. of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe of Stene; b.; at school under Busby (F. R. Harris, op. cit. ); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 Apr 1672; MA 1673; adm. Middle Temple 6 Mar 1674, called to bar 13 May 1681, Bencher 21 Nov 1684, Treasurer 1686; KC 1685; Counsel to Cambridge Univ. from 1684; MP Huntingdon 1685-7; Solicitor-Gen. to Queen Mary (wife of James II) 11 Oct 1685-8; d. unm. 1693, aged 38.

MONTAGU, HON. JOHN, twin brother of Hon. Oliver Montagu (qv); b.; at school under Busby (F. R. Harris, The Life of Edward Mountagu KG, First Earl of Sandwich, 1912, ii, 183); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 Apr 1672; MA 1673; DD 1682; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1674 – c. 1681; ordained priest (London) 21 Dec 1679; Master of Sherburn Hospital, Durham 1680; Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge 12 May 1683 – Jan 1699/1700; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ., 1687-8; Prebendary of Durham 18 Oct 1683- Jan 1699/1700; Dean of Durham from 10 Jan 1699/1700; Clerk of the Closet to William III 25 Nov 1695 – 8 Mar 1702; d. unm. 23 Feb 1727/8, aged 73. DNB.

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.