Montefiore, Denis, brother of Leslie Montefiore (qv); b. 22 June 1910; adm. May 1924 (A); left Apr. 1927; HM Treasury in WW2; d. 1984.

Montefiore, Cecil Sebag, third son of Sir Joseph Sebag Montefiore, Kt., of Ramsgate, Kent, by Adelaide, daughter of Louis Cohen, of St. Marylebone; b. Oct. 14, 1874; adm. Jan. 17, 1889 (R); left Dec. 1891; Univ. Coll. London; Capt. R.E. Aug. 29, 1914; temp. Major Oct. 22, 1914; served on the Staff in France and Belgium 1914-5, at Gallipoli 1915-6, and with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-8, and was severely wounded; T.D.; author of A History of the Volunteer Forces to 1860 (1908); m. Nov. 10, 1897, Amy M., daughter of George Charles Raphael, of Englefield Green, Surrey; d. Feb. 8, 1923.

Montagu, Stuart Albert Samuel, 3rd Baron Swaythling, son of Louis, 2nd Baron Swaythling, and Gladys Helen Rachel Goldsmid OBE, d. of Col. Albert Edward Williamson Goldsmid MVO, asst Adjutant-Gen. S. Africa; b. 19 Dec. 1898; adm. from Clifton Coll. Apr. 1914 (G); left 1915; Grenadier Guards in WWI (Lieut); Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1919, BA 1921, MA 1926; succ. his father as 3rd Baron 11 June 1927; a banker and farmer; chairman local retail licensing committee London 1943-6; OBE June 1947; dir. Samuel Montagu & Co. Ltd 1951-4; JP Southampton 1928-48, Surrey 1948-80; Pres. English Guernsey Cattle Soc. 1950-1 and 1971- 2, Roy. Assn of Brit. Dairy Farmers 1970-2 and 1973-4; Master The Company of Farmers 1962-3; m. 1st 21 Apr. 1925 Mary Violet, d. of Maj. Walter Henry Levy DSO; 2nd 15 Aug. 1945 Jean Knox CBE, Dir. ATS, d. of G. G. Leith-Marshall; d. 5 Jan. 1990.

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, 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, CHARLES, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX, fourth son of Hon. George Montagu MP, Horton, Northants, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Anthony Irby, Kt, Boston, Lincs.; b. 16 Apr 1661; adm. 1675; KS (Capt. ) 1677; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 8 Nov 1679; MA 1682; LLD 1705; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1683 – c. 1689; High Steward, Cambridge Univ., from 1697; wrote with Matthew Prior (qv) The Hind and the Panther transvers’d to the story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse, 1687; MP Maldon 1689-95, Westminster 1695 – 13 Dec 1700; a Clerk of the Privy Council 1689-92; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 21 Mar 1692 – Apr 1698; his proposal of 15 Dec 1692 to raise a million pounds by life annuities was the origin of the National Debt; his bill to establish the Bank of England became law 1694; Chancellor of the Exchequer 30 Apr 1694 – May 1699; Privy Councillor 10 May 1694; introduced the Recoinage Bill, and instituted the Window Tax to pay for the expense of the recoinage; issued the first Exchequer Bills and carried his bill for the formation of a consolidated fund to meet interest on the various government loans; First Lord of the Treasury 1 May 1697 – Nov 1699; Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer 17 Nov 1699 – 30 Sep 1714; created Baron Halifax 13 Dec 1700; impeached by the House of Lords for obtaining grants from the King in the names of others for himself, and for his share in the Partition Treaty, but the impeachment was dismissed for want of prosecution 24 Jun 1701; charged by House of Commons for neglect of his duties as Auditor of the Exchequer, but his conduct as such was unanimously approved by the House of Lords 1703; successfully moved the rejection of the Occasional Conformity Bill 14 Dec 1703; a Commissioner for negotiating the Union with Scotland 10 Apr 1706; acted as one of the Lords Justices from Queen Anne’s death until the arrival of George I; First Lord of the Treasury from 11 Oct 1714; KG 16 Oct 1714; created Earl of Halifax 19 Oct 1714; Lord Lieutenant, Surrey, from 24 Dec 1714; a great parliamentary orator and brilliant financier; the lifelong friend of Sir Isaac Newton and a munificent patron of literature; FRS 30 Nov 1695, President 30 Nov 1695 – 30 Nov 1698; his collected poems were published in 1715; [? m. 1st, 3 Sep 1685 Elisabeth, dau. of Francis Forster, South Bailey, Durham]; m. Feb 1688 Anne, widow of his cousin Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, and dau. of Sir Christopher Yelverton, Bart.; d. 19 May 1715. Buried in Duke of Albemarle’s vault, Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

MONSON, JOHN, 2ND BARON MONSON, eldest surviving son of John Monson, 1st Baron Monson PC KB, President, Board of Trade, and Lady Margaret Watson, youngest dau. of Lewis Watson, 1ST Earl of Rockingham; b. 23 Jul 1727; adm. Apr 1737 (Taylor's); succ. father as 2nd Baron Monson 18 Jul 1748; LLD Cambridge 1749; Chief Justice in Eyre, South of the Trent 5 Nov 1765 – 27 Nov 1766; m. 23 Jun 1752 Theodosia, dau. of John Maddison, Stamford, Lincs.; d. 23 Jul 1774. DNB.

MONSON, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1737 (Taylor's). [Presumably a brother of, or close kin to, John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (qv), adm. same month].

MONSON, HON. GEORGE, brother of John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (qv); b. 18 Apr 1730; adm. Jun 1738 (Taylor's); left 1747; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 20 Nov 1750; Lieut. and Capt., 22 Dec 1753; Maj., Draper’s Regt. (64th, afterwards 79th, Foot), 18 Nov 1757; went to India with his regiment 1758; wounded at siege of Pondicherry 1760; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 29 Sep 1760; Lieut. -Col. commandant, 96th Foot 20 Jan 1761; distinguished himself at capture of Manila 1762; Brig. -Gen. in East Indies 7 Jul 1763; returned to England at Peace of Paris; Col. and ADC to George III 30 Nov 1769; Col., 50th Foot, from 1 Sep 1775; MP Lincoln 1754-68; Groom of Bedchamber to George III as Prince of Wales 1756-60; appointed member, Supreme Council of Bengal, under Regulating Act of 1773; arrived in Calcutta 19 Oct 1774; opposed policy of Warren Hastings (qv); resigned owing to ill-health Sep 1776; gazetted Lieut. -Gen. (sic, check) 4 Mar 1777, before news of his death reached England; m. 1757 Lady Anne Vane, formerly wife of Hon. Charles Hope Weir, and sister of Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (qv); d. in India 25 Sep 1776. DNB.