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MORGAN, CHARLES MORGAN ROBINSON, 1ST BARON TREDEGAR, eldest son of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. (adm. 1771, qv); b. 10 Apr 1792; at school under Carey (signed Play Protest 1847); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 May 1811; DCL 1848; MP (Tory/Conservative) Brecon 1812-8, 1830-2, 1835-47; succ. father as 3rd baronet 5 Dec 1846; created Baron Tredegar 16 Apr 1859; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; Lord Lieut. , Breconshire, from 27 Sep 1866; FSA by 1831; m. 6 Oct 1827 Rosamond, only dau. of Gen. Godfrey Basil Mundy; d. 16 Apr 1875.

MORDAUNT, HON. JOHN, brother of Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough and 2nd Earl of Monmouth (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1719; in under school list 1724; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 22 Feb 1725/6, res. 17 May 1736; Lieut. -Col., Duke of Kingston’s Light Horse 4 Oct 1745 – 15 Sep 1746; MP Nottinghamshire 14 Feb 1738/9-47, Winchilsea 1747-54, Christchurch 1754-61; m. 1st, 9 Oct 1735 Mary, widow of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke PC, and dau. of Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe (I) MP; m. 2nd, 11 Mar 1758 (IGI) Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Hamilton; d. 1 Jul 1767.

MORDAUNT, HON. HARRY, brother of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (qv); b. 29 Mar 1663; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1676; tried at the Old Bailey 15 Oct 1679, with David Jones and John Osbaldeston (qvv), for murder of a bailiff, but acquitted (Elizabethan xviii, 83); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680 – void 1687; BA 1684; Lieut. of a corps of Christ Church and other men who trained privately in Peckwater Quadrangle during the panic caused by Monmouth’s rebellion (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, cii-ciii); adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1673/4; Col. of a Regt. of Foot 25 Apr 1694; Commander in Chief, Guernsey 1 Apr 1697; Treasurer of the Ordnance 8 Jun 1699 – Jun 1702, 28 May 1705 – Jun 1712, and from 2 Dec 1714; Brig. -Gen., 29 Aug 1704; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1706; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1709; MP Brackley Jan 1691/2-8, Jan 1700/1-2, 1705-8, Richmond from 1708; m. 1st, Margaret, natural dau. of Sir Thomas Spencer, Bart.; m. 2nd, Penelope, dau. of William Tipping, Ewelme, Oxfordshire; d. 4 Jan 1719/20 (M. I. Dauntsey, Wilts. ).

MOORE, GEORGE PETER, brother of Richmond Moore (qv); bapt. 25 May 1778; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1793; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1798, scholar 6 Dec 1798; BA 1802; MA 1805; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Jun 1799; MP Queenborough 1802- Mar 1806; m. 25 May 1809 Harriet, dau. of John Marsh, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London.

MONTAGU, WILLIAM; b.; at school 30 May 1666 (Busby’s Account Book). [Perhaps William Montagu, eldest son of Hon. William Montagu MP, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Sir John Aubrey, Bart., Llantrithyd, Glamorgan; b. 13 Oct 1652; adm. Middle Temple 1666 [check]; of Woodcote, Epsom, Surrey, and Baynards, Ewhurst, Surrey; MP Midhurst Mar 1681 (unseated for bribery), Stockbridge 26 Sep – 15 Nov 1689 and from 1690; imprisoned for debt for failure to pay huge sum in damages for eloping with the wife of John Lewknor MP; d. in prison 2 Apr 1691].

MONTAGU, HON. WILLIAM, brother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (qv); b.; adm. (aged 7) Apr 1728 (as William Montague); entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 20 Sep 1741; Cdr., 23 May 1744; Capt., 23 May 1745; MP Huntingdonshire 9 Nov 1745-7, Bossiney 22 Feb 1752-4; m. 13 Nov 1749 Charlotte, dau. of Francis Naylor (formerly Blundell), Offord Darcy, Hunts.; d. 10 Feb 1757.

MONTAGU, SIR JAMES, brother of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (qv); b. 2 Feb 1665/6; at school under Busby (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , ii, 549); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 26 Jun 1683, aged 16, matr. 1684; MA 1698; adm. Middle Temple 8 Jun 1683, called to bar 14 Jun 1689; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 May 1707, Bencher 7 May 1707; MP Tregony 1695-8, Bere Alston 1698-1700, Carlisle 1705-13; Chief Justice of Ely (check) 1698; committed by House of Commons to custody of Serjeant-at-Arms for having demanded a habeas corpus on behalf of the Aylesbury men 26 Feb 1705; knighted 16 Apr 1705; QC Nov 1705; Solicitor-Gen. 1707-8, Attorney-Gen. 1708-10; opened case against Sacheverell in House of Lords 27 Feb 1709/10; Serjeant-at-law 26 Oct 1714; a Baron of the Exchequer 22 Nov 1714 – May 1722, Lord Chief Baron from May 1722; a Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal 18 Apr – 12 May 1718; m. 1st, 6 Oct 1694 (IGI) Tufton, dau. of Sir William Wray, Bart. , Ashby, Lincs. ; m. 2nd, 6 Oct 1713 (IGI) his cousin Lady Elizabeth Montagu, dau. of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester; d. 1 Oct 1723. DNB.

MONTAGU, RALPH, 1ST DUKE OF MONTAGU, brother of Hon. Edward Montagu (b. 1635, qv); bapt. 29 Dec 1638; adm.; boarder with Head Master, where he fell ill of the small-pox (HMC Montagu of Beaulieu, pp 162, 163, 165; Elizabethan viii, 108); contributed a copy of verses to Lachrymae Musarum, 1649, while at school; Master of the Horse to the Duchess of York, and subsequently to Queen Catharine; Ambassador Extraordinary to Paris 1669-72, 1676, 1677-8; Master of the Great Wardrobe 12 Aug 1671 – Dec 1685 and from 1689; Privy Counsellor 2 Jan 1672; intrigued for position of Secretary of State, but denounced by Duchess of Cleveland; on his return from Paris without leave he was superseded as Ambassador and struck off the Privy Council; negotiated with French Ambassador, promising to obtain Danby’s fall within six months in return for a handsome pension; MP Northampton Oct – Dec 1678; tried to escape to France, but arrested at Dover and obliged to give security not to leave the kingdom; MP Huntingdonshire Feb – Jul 1679, Northampton 1679-81; attempted without success to get the Duke of Monmouth declared Prince of Wales; retired to the continent; succ. father as 3rd Baron Montagu of Boughton 10 Jan 1683/4; returned to England on accession of James II; took an active part in House of Lords in promoting the Revolution of 1688; readm. to Privy Council 14 Feb 1688/9; created Earl of Montagu 9 Apr 1689; entertained William III with great magnificence at Boughton 1695; created Duke of Montagu 14 Apr 1705; m. 1st, 24 Aug 1673 Elizabeth, widow of Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, and dau. of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton; m. 2nd, 8 Sep 1692 Elizabeth, widow of Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, and dau. of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle; d. 9 Mar 1708/9. DNB.

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. 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.