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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.

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.

MONCKTON-ARUNDELL, WILLIAM, 2ND VISCOUNT GALWAY (I), eldest son of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway (I) MP, and his first wife Lady Elizabeth Manners, dau. of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland KG; nephew of Robert Monckton (Min. Can. 1714, qv); b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1737; MP Pontefract 1747 – Dec 1748, Thirsk 1 Apr 1749-54, Pontefract from 1754; MA Cambridge 1749; Receiver-Gen. of Crown Rents, Yorkshire and co. Durham, Dec 1748; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Galway (I) 15 Jul 1751; Master of the Royal Staghounds 2 Aug 1765 – Jul 1770; assumed additional surname and arms of Arundell 22 Dec 1769; m. 12 Aug 1747 Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Da Costa Villa Real; d. 18 Nov 1772.

MONCKTON, HON. ROBERT, brother of William Monckton-Arundell, 2nd Viscount Galway (I) (qv); b. 24 Jun 1726; adm. Sep 1737; in school lists 1737-41; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 22 Apr 1741; Capt., 34th Foot 27 Jun 1744; Maj., 5 Feb 1746/7; Lieut. -Col., 47th Foot 28 Feb 1751; Col. commandant 60th Foot (Royal American Regt. ), 20 Dec 1757- Oct 1759; Brig. -Gen., 1759; Col., 17th Foot, from 24 Oct 1759; Major-Gen., 20 Feb 1761; Lieut. -Gen., 30 Apr 1770; served in Flanders 1742-5; present at battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy; sent to Nova Scotia 1752; Lieut. -Gov., Annapolis Royal 1754 (still 1769); captured Forts Beauséjour and Gaspereau (renamed Fort Monckton) from the French 1755; Lieut. -Gov., Nova Scotia Dec 1755; second in command of Wolfe’s expedition to Quebec, where he was wounded 13 Sep 1759; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, New York 20 Mar 1761; sailed with Rodney to West Indies and captured Martinique, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent 1761-2; returned to England 1763; Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed 14 Jun 1765-78, Portsmouth from 1778; MP Pontefract 26 Nov 1751-4, 24 Mar – 30 Sep 1774, Portsmouth from 10 Aug 1778; d. unm. 3 May 1782. DNB.

MITCHELL, JOHN, son of David Mitchell, Carshalton House, Surrey, and Jamaica, West Indies, plantation owner, and Anne Hewitt Smith; b. Jamaica 1781; adm.; in school list 1795; KS 1796; probably Mitchell who played cricket v. Eton at Lords’s 8 Aug 1799; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1800; BA 1804; MA 1808; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1803, called to bar 1808; MP Kingston upon Hull 1818-26; of Doune Lodge, Perthshire; m. 11 Sep 1824 Eliza, eldest dau. of John Elliott, Pimlico Lodge, Westminster, porter brewer; d. 24 Jun 1827 [ or 29 Aug 1859 ?].

MILLS, GEORGE; b.; adm. 6 Feb 1775. [Perhaps George Galway Mills, son of Peter Matthew Mills (qv); b. 22 Oct 1765; MP Wallingford 8 Feb 1804-6, Mitchell 1807 – Jan 1808, Winchelsea 1818-20; d. 14 Feb 1828].

MILLES, RICHARD, son of Christopher Milles, Nackington, Kent, and Mary, dau. of Richard Warner, North Elmham, Norfolk; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1749 (Porten's); in school list 1752; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 27 Oct 1753; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 May 1753; MP Canterbury 1761-80; m. 9 Oct 1765 Mary Elizabeth, only dau. of Rev. Thomas Tanner DD, Prebendary of Canterbury; d. 14 Sep 1820.

MILBANKE, SIR RALPH, BART., eldest son of Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart., and his second wife Anne, dau. of Edward Delaval MP, South Dissington, Northumberland; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1733; left 1740; succ. as 5th baronet 9 May 1748; MP Scarborough 1754-61, Richmond 1761-8; High Sheriff, Yorkshire 1763; Col. North Yorkshire Militia from c. 1772, with rank of Col. in Army 2 Jul 1779; m. by 29 Jul 1747 Elizabeth, dau. of John Hedworth MP, Chester-le-Street, Durham; d. 8 Jan 1798.