MONGER, JOHN, brother of William Monger (qv); bapt. 3 May 1601; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1620, adm. scholar 1621, matr. Mich. 1620; m. 1st, 8 Jan 1622/3 Mary, dau. of Edward Harrison, St. Lawrence Jewry, London; m. 2nd, Mary, dau. of Robert Gravenor, London; d. c. 1654. [perhaps John Monger, St. Michael Queenhithe, City of London, will proved PCC 10 Jul 1654]

MONGER, WILLIAM, second son of Benjamin Monger, City of London, scrivener, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Thomas Easterby, London; bapt. 14 Nov 1592 (sic); adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church 1613, matr. 21 Feb 1616/7, aged 20, described as “cler. fil. ”, Westminster Student to 1619; BA 1617; adm. Gray’s Inn 8 Feb 1617/8; of Upminster, Essex; d. c. 1656.

MONKHOUSE, CYRIL JOSEPH, eldest son of Cyril John Monkhouse, Craven Street, Strand, London, solicitor, and Amelia Marie, dau. of Rev. Robert Mark Delafosse, Richmond, Surrey; b. 26 Nov 1822; adm. 6 Apr 1831; KS 1836; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1840, adm. pens. 28 May 1840, scholar 1841; d. 31 May 1842.

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.

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.

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.

Moonan, Denis Lyon Morton, brother of Reginald Francis Lyon Moonan (q.v.); b. Nov. 29, 1904; adm. as K.S. Sept. 27, 1917; got the Pancake in 1919, when the King and Queen were present; left July 1921; Christ's Coll. Camb., matric. Oct. 1924; a musician; m. 1931 Eileen Winifred Coysh, dau. of Herbert George Maurice Smith.

Moonan, Reginald Francis Lyon, son of William Herbert Moonan, of East Sheen, Surrey, barrister-at-law, by Florence Ida, daughter of Henry Loder Hancock Lyon, of Bond Street, London; b. Dec. 11, 1902; adm. as K.S. Sept. 21, 1916; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1921, matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1924; employed with J. and P. Coats and Co., in Vienna; d. 1 July 1980.

MOORE, ARTHUR, second son of Arthur Moore MP, one of Comptrollers of Army Accounts and director, South Sea Company, and his second wife Theophila, dau. of William Smythe, Inner Temple, Paymaster, Band of Pensioners; bapt. 1 Aug 1700; adm.; Min. Can. 1714; KS 1715; some interesting extracts from his school bill for 21 Dec 1714 – 21 Jun 1715 are printed Notes and Queries, 5th series, xii, 365; adm. Inner Temple 6 May 1715; Joint Paymaster of Gentlemen Pensioners, from 31 May 1718; m.; d. 11 Jun 1734.