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, 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, 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.

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.

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, Langton, brother of Leslie Montefiore (q.v.); b. April 6, 1904; adm. Sept. 26 1918 (A); left Easter 1922; admitted a member of the London Stock Exchange 1927; 2nd Lieut. R.A.S.C. March 30, 1940; Capt.; m. June 2, 1927, Millicent, daughter of S. Lazarus, of St. Marylebone; killed on active service in Greece 27 April 1941.

Langton Montefiore was born at Chartridge, Buckinghamshire on the 6th of April 1904 the second son of Harry John Montefiore, a stockbroker and member of the London Stock Exchange, and Harriet (nee Montefiore) Montefiore of Chartridge Grange, near Chesham, later of “Fingest”, near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from the 26th of September 1918 and Easter 1922. He was a member of the Debating Society in 1921. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Corporal in September 1921. On leaving school he went to work as a stockbroker and was admitted as a Member of the London Stock Exchange in 1927. He was married at Marylebone on the 2nd of June 1927 to Millicent (nee Lazarus) and they lived at 80, Eaton Place in London and at “Valley Holme”, Horsted Keynes in Sussex. They had a son, born on the 6th of May 1928. Following the outbreak of war he was appointed as a Deputy Area Officer for Air Raid Precautions. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps on the 30th of March 1940.
At 7pm on the 24th of April 1941, a convoy of trucks of the 308th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps left Argos, Greece to head for Kalamata where they were to be evacuated to Egypt following the collapse of the Allied resistance to the German invasion of Greece. Driver T/199458 F.G. Lee reported that Major James Garrard Black, 2nd Lieutenant J.M. Carroll Lieutenant Mansfield, Langton Montefiore and about 100 men were among those who remained at Argos from where they made their way to the beaches in Nauplia Bay to await evacuation to Crete. They boarded the 11, 636 ton passenger liner SS Slamat, under the command of Master Tjalling Luidinga, on the night of the 26th/27th of April and set sail at 4.15am on the 27th of April. SS Slamat sailed south as part of a convoy and was in the Argolic Gulf when the convoy was attacked firstly by Messerschmitt Bf109 fighters and then by Junkers 87, Junkers 88 and Dornier 17 bombers at 7.15am. During the attack SS Slamat was struck between the bridge and the forward funnel by a 550lb bomb and was set on fire. As she listed to starboard, she was hit by a second bomb and the order was given to abandon the ship. With many of life boats and life rafts having been destroyed in the bombing, most of the survivors swam clear of the sinking ship with two overcrowded life boats capsizing. Some of the survivors were machine gunned in the water by enemy fighters. The destroyer HMS Diamond began taking survivors on board but was forced to stop and speed away when she too came under attack from enemy aircraft. HMS Diamond returned at 8.15am to rescue more survivors and at 9.16am the destroyer HMS Wryneck was ordered to join her in the rescue of the men in the water. At 9.25am HMS Diamond reported that she had picked up most of the survivors and was heading for Souda Bay but, when HMS Wryneck joined HMS Diamond at 11am both of the destroyers returned to SS Slamat where they found two more lifeboats and rescued their occupants. With SS Slamat on fire from stem to stern, she was scuttled by HMS Diamond with a single torpedo before the destroyer left the area with around 600 survivors on board. It is believed that Langton Montefiore was among those who were rescued from the water by the two destroyers.
At 1.15pm, a formation of Junkers 87 “Stuka” dive bombers attacked the two destroyers from out of the sun,with two bombs landing on HMS Diamond destroying her lifeboats and she sank eight minutes later. HMS Wryneck was hit by three bombs and sank ten to fifteen minutes later.
About 1,000 men were lost in the bombing of the three ships with only eight from the five hundred evacuees on board SS Slamat surviving the sinkings.
He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 8.

Montefiore, Leslie, son of Harry John Montefiore, of Regents Park, by Harriet, daughter of Robert Chettle, of Llanelly, S. Wales; b. Aug. 21, 1900; adm. April 29, 1915 (A); left Dec. 1916; emigrated to Australia; served in Great War II as a corporal, Australian Imperial Hospital Unit; d. 1955.

Montefiore, Neville, brother of Leslie Montefiore (qv); b. 26 Jan. 1906; adm. Jan. 1920 (A); left July 1923; RAFVR 1940-5 (Flt Lieut.), AFC Jan. 1943; an hotelier; m. 1st 6 Apr. 1929 Gladys Margaret Frances, d. of John Henry Mortimer Rogers of Esher, Surrey; 2nd 16 Apr. 1945 Con­stance May, d. of Thomas Cecil Gaunt; d. 23 Feb. 1968.

MONTFORDE, JOHN, son of Rev. Thomas Montforde DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Tewin, Herts., and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1594, adm. scholar 1594; BA 1598/9; MA 1602; BD 1610; DD 1620; ordained; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 14 Nov 1618; Rector of Thorley, Herts., 1619; Vicar of Ware, Herts., 1633-4; Rector of Anstey, Herts., 1 Aug 1640 – ejected 1643; Vicar of Therfield, Herts., 8 Aug 1640 – ejected 1643; Prebendary of Ely from 1643; m. Joan ---; d. 1 Nov 1651.