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Frederick Montagu (July 1733 – 30 July 1800) was a British Whig MP.


Life

His father,
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, was auditor-general of the
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, while Frederick was Prince of Wales; was MP for Westminster in 1722, for St. Germans in 1734, for Camelford in 1741, and for Northampton in 1754, and died on 29 May 1759. Frederick's mother, Ann Colladon, well known in society after her husband's death, was an intimate friend of Mary, dowager-countess of Gower (the widow of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower), and of
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, in whose published 'Correspondence' she frequently figures as 'my Mrs Montague', in order to distinguish her from the better known Elizabeth Montagu. Her London residence was in Hanover Square. She died on 31 May 1780. Frederick was educated at
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and
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8 February 1750. He seems to have won Paris's college declamation prize, and his oration was published at the request of the master and fellows as 'Oratio in laudes Baconi,' Cambridge, 1755, 4to. He graduated
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(MA) '' per lit. reg.'' in 1757. At Cambridge, Montagu made the acquaintance of the poets
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and
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, which he sedulously cultivated afterwards. To his influence, Mason owed his appointment to a canonry at York in 1762. Admitted a barrister of
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in 1757, Montagu became a bencher in 1782. He succeeded his father to the Papplewick estate in 1759 and to his seat as MP for
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from 1759 to 1767. He also represented
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as MP from 1768 to 1790. In 1763, his cousin,
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, pressed George Grenville to obtain a post for him in the board of trade, and he was subsequently 'a devoted adherent to the Cavendish and Rockingham interest'. In 1772, he moved in vain to abolish the fast of 30 January, the date of
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's execution ; the fast was not abolished till 1859. In 1780, he was generally expected to succeed Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley as speaker of the House of Commons. He became a Lord of the Treasury in 1782 under Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, and again in 1783 in
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 173830 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) an ...
's coalition ministry. In 1787, he was a member of the
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that prepared the articles of
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's impeachment. He was popular in society, and had literary tastes. Wraxall describes him as 'a man of distinguished probity'. On retiring from the House of Commons in 1790, he was made a
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, and lived mainly at his house at Papplewick Hall, which he had rebuilt in 1787. He expressed approval of Burke's '' Reflections on the Revolution in France''.Roland Thorne, â
Montagu, Frederick (1733–1800)
€™, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 4 June 2009.
He was created Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) at Oxford on 3 July 1793. He died unmarried at Papplewick on 30 July 1800.


Family

A sister, Ann, who died on 10 September 1786, was wife of John Fountayne,
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, to whose grandson, Richard Fountayne Wilson, the estate of Papplewick passed, together with the name of Montagu.


Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Montagu, Frederick 1733 births 1800 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of Lincoln's Inn
Frederick Montagu Frederick Montagu (July 1733 – 30 July 1800) was a British Whig MP. Life His father, Charles, was auditor-general of the Duchy of Cornwall, while Frederick was Prince of Wales; was MP for Westminster in 1722, for St. Germans in 1734, for ...
Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 Fellows of the Royal Society English barristers