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Montagu (surname)
Montagu ( ) is an English surname of Old French origin, a form of Montague. One notable family with this surname is the House of Montagu, who include the Earls of Sandwich. Notable people with the surname include: * Lady Agneta Harriet Montagu (1838–1919), English aristocrat and bridesmaid to Alexandra of Denmark *Alberta Montagu, Countess of Sandwich (1877–1951), American wife of the 9th Earl of Sandwich *Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester (b. 1962), the current Duke of Manchester *Ashley Montagu (1905–1999), anthropologist * Charles Montagu (other), several persons *David Montagu, 4th Baron Swaythling (1928–1998), British peer and industrialist * Edward Montagu (other), several persons :*Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (died 1361), English peer :*Sir Edward Montagu (judge) (c.1485–1556/1557), English lawyer and judge :*Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton (1532–1601/1602) of Boughton House :*Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton (1560â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu Of Boughton
Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton Order of the Bath, KB (AKA Sir Edward Montague of Boughton Castle) (c. 1562 – 15 June 1644) was an English politician. Life Montagu was the son of Edward Montagu of Boughton, Sir Edward Montagu and his wife Elizabeth Harington, a daughter of James Harington (lawyer), James Harington of Exton, Rutland, Exton. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in about 1574 and graduated BA on 14 March 1579. He was a student of the Middle Temple in 1580. He succeeded his father in 1602. In 1584, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bere Alston (UK Parliament constituency), Bere Alston, in 1597 for Tavistock (UK Parliament constituency), Tavistock and in 1601 for Brackley (UK Parliament constituency), Brackley. He was created Knight of the Bath by James I at his coronation of James I, coronation on 25 July 1603. He was appointed High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1595–96. In 1604 Montagu was elected MP for Northamptonshire (UK Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wortley Montagu (diplomat)
Sir Edward Wortley Montagu (8 February 167822 January 1761) was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu. Son of Sidney Wortley Montagu and grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Wortley Montagu was educated at Westminster School, Trinity College, Cambridge (1693) and trained in the law at the Middle Temple (1693). He was called to the bar in 1699 and entered the Inner Temple in 1706. He was best known for his correspondence with, seduction of, and elopement with Mary Pierrepont, daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. They married in 1712. Edward succeeded his father in 1727, inheriting Wortley Hall, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Edward was a prominent Whig politician, and was MP for Huntingdon before eventually becoming a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1714 to 1715. He made Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wortley Montagu (traveller)
Edward Wortley Montagu (15 May 1713 – 29 April 1776) was an English author and traveller. He was the son of the diplomat and member of parliament Edward Wortley Montagu and the writer and traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose talent and eccentricity he seems to have inherited. In 1716, he was taken by his parents to Constantinople, and at Pera in March 1716-17 was inoculated for smallpox, the first native of the United Kingdom to undergo this medical procedure. On the return of his parents to England in 1718, he was placed at Westminster School, from which he ran away more than once. On the first occasion, in July 1726, he was traced to Oxford, and was with difficulty 'reduced to the humble condition of a school-boy.' He decamped again in August 1727 and was not recovered for some months. Two similar escapades are mentioned by his tutor, Forster, chaplain to the Duchess of Kingston, but without dates. The first ended in his discovery, after a year's absence, selling fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu (1692–1776)
Edward Montagu (1692–1776) was a wealthy English landowner, who owned numerous coal mines and had several rents and estates in Northumberland. The son of Hon. Charles Montagu (died 1721), Charles Montagu, MP, by Sarah Rogers, and the grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, he was educated at Eton College, Clare College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. In 1730 he became the leaseholder of the small estate of Sandleford Priory (country house), Sandleford, south of Newbury on the Berkshire-Hampshire border, and in 1742 he married Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson (despite her seeing marriage as a rational and expedient convention rather than something done out of love). At that date, she was twenty-two and he was fifty years old. The marriage was advantageous, but it was apparently not very passionate. All the same, she bore a son, John, the next year, and she loved her child immensely. When John died unexpectedly in 1744, Elizabeth was devastated and, though the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu (died 1738)
Brigadier Edward Montagu or Montague (after 1684 – 2 August 1738) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1734. Montagu was the second son of Edward Montagu of Horton, Northamptonshire and his wife Elizabeth Pelham, daughter of Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet, MP of Halland, Sussex. He was grandson of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester and brother of George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax. He joined the army and was an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards in 1702 and then captain in the 2nd Dragoon Guards. In 1709 he became lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Dragoons. He married by licence dated 9 March 1709, Arabella Heath, widow of Robert Heath of Lewes, Sussex, and daughter of John Trevor of Trevalyn, Denbighshire and Plas Teg, Flintshire. He was taken prisoner at Brihuega in 1710 but became brevet colonel of the Dragoons in 1711. He was colonel of the 11th Foot from 1715 and commanded his regiment at Sheriffmuir in 1715. Montagu was ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl Of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich (10 April 1670 – 20 October 1729) was born in Burlington House, London, England to Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich and Lady Ann Boyle. He was styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke from 1672 until his accession to the earldom in 1688. On the accession of Queen Anne, Sandwich was appointed Master of the Horse to her husband, Prince George of Denmark, despite strong objections from the royal favorite Sarah Churchill, who wanted the office for one of her own family. Sandwich was generally regarded by his contemporaries as insane: his wife so far as possible kept him "close confined" at Hinchingbrooke and entrusted the management of the family estates to their son, as soon as he was old enough to take charge. From 1704 at the latest the Queen came under intense pressure to dismiss him from his office of Master of the Horse; she followed her frequent policy of temporizing, writing that she thought that "he was not as ill as he was said to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (7 July 1692 – 3 October 1722) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1722. Hinchingbrooke was the eldest son of Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Earl of Rochester. His mother kept his father, who was generally believed to be insane, much confined, leaving Hinchingbrooke to carry out the public business of his family. On 12 April 1707, at the age of 14, Hinchingbrooke married Elizabeth Popham (died 20 March 1761), the daughter of Alexander Popham (died 1705), Alexander Popham of Littlecote, Wiltshire (a grandson of Colonel Alexander Popham). After a tour of the continent in 1708, he was given command of a troop in Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, Sir Richard Temple's Regiment of Horse for the 1709 campaign in Flanders. During this time, Hinchingbrooke was one of the infamous Mohocks, and was arrested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu (1672–1710)
Edward Montagu (1672–1710) was an English politician, elected as Member of Parliament for Chippenham in 1698. His kinsman Alexander Popham Alexander Popham (1605 – 1669) of Littlecote, Wiltshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1669. He was patron of the philosopher John Locke. Early life Popham was born at Little ..., one of the two Chippenham Members since 1690, in 1698 stood instead in Bath, making way for Montagu.*David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, ''The House of Commons, 1690-1715'', Volume 1 (2002), p. 174. References 1672 births 1710 deaths English MPs 1698–1700 People from Chippenham Place of birth missing {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu (1649–1690)
Edward Montagu (25 September 1649 – 27 February 1690) was an English politician, the son of Hon. George Montagu (died 1681), George Montagu. He was the MP for Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency), Northamptonshire (12 May 1685 – 1690) and Seaford (UK Parliament constituency), Seaford (7 Mar 1681 — 6 Apr 1685). References 1649 births 1690 deaths Montagu family, Edward English MPs 1681 English MPs 1685–1687 English MPs 1689–1690 {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu (died 1665)
Edward Montagu (c. 1636 – 2 August 1665) was an English politician, courtier and naval officer. He was the MP for Sandwich, Kent. Life He was the eldest son of the second Baron Montagu. He was educated at Westminster School, matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 5 June 1651, and was admitted at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 25 September 1651. He was created M.A. of Oxford on 9 September 1661. In 1659, he joined his cousin, Admiral Montagu, with a view to influencing him in favour of the English Restoration, and was acting as a medium of communication between Charles II and the admiral in April 1660. He represented Sandwich in parliament from 1661 to 1665, and was master of the horse to Queen Catharine of Braganza. He was commissioned captain-lieutenant of the King's company in the King's Foot Guards in February 1661. He was killed in Bergen, Norway in August 1665, in the Battle of Vågen The Battle of Vågen was a naval battle between a Netherlands, Dutch mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu Of Boughton
Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton (11 July 1616–10 January 1684) of Boughton House, Northamptonshire was an English peer and politician. Life He was born at Weekley on 11 July 1616, the eldest son of Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton. He was educated at Oundle School and entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 2 March 1631. He represented the borough of Huntingdon in the Long Parliament (elected 23 October 1640) until called to the House of Lords on the death of his father in 1644. He took the engagement to the Commonwealth in October 1644, and was constantly in the House of Lords during the proceedings against Archbishop William Laud. On 18 July 1645 he was nominated by both houses of parliament one of the commissioners to reside with the Scottish army in England, and in that capacity treated for the surrender of Newark in May 1646. With Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh he received the king's person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
