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.
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, ---; b.; at school in 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).
MONSON, PHILIP, only son of Philip Monson, Millbank, Westminster, and Sarah, widow of John Holmes, Madley, Herefs., and dau. of Sir John Scudamore, Bart., Ballingham, Herefs.; bapt. 4 Jan 1702/3; adm. May 1717; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jan 1717/8; m. Ann Scudamore, Kentchurch, Herefs.; living 1743. [But note that a Philip Monson m. at St. James’s, Piccadilly 25 Jun 1723 Anne Shuttleworth (sic) (IGI)]. [Perhaps Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 12 May 1720]
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.