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Henry Robinson-Montague, 6th Baron Rokeby, (2 February 1798 – 25 May 1883) was a senior

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officer of the 19th century.

Military career

Born the son of the 4th Baron, Rokeby was commissioned into the

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in 1814.The Peerage.com
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and the

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in June 1815. He fought in the

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as Commander of the 1st Division in 1855.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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commanding the

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. He retired from the post five years later in 1861. He was promoted to

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in 1869 and retired in 1877. The peerage became extinct on his death on 25 May 1883. He lived at Hazelwood,

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, Hertfordshire from 1838 until his death.

Family

In 1826 he married Magdalen Huxley or Hurley, the widow of Frederick Crofts. Their children included: *Hon. Harriet Lydia Montagu, (d. 23 November 1894), she married the 4th

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; *Hon. Mary Montagu, (d. 6 September 1868), she married the 14th Marquess of Winchester. By 1895 Lord Henry Paulet, later 16th Marquess of Winchester, was in possession of the family's Denton estate in Northumberland;

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*Hon. Magdalen Montagu, (d. 30 September 1919), she married the Very Rev. Hon.

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, Dean of Windsor, son of Lord Cowley. By 1895 the

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estate in Yorkshire was in her possession; *Hon. Edmund Montagu, (1835–1852).

Agricultural Estates in 1883

*North Riding of Yorkshire (Eryholme), 2,835 acres (worth 4,021 guineas per annum); *Northumberland (Denton), 1,622 acres (worth 4,137 guineas per annum); *Hertfordshire (

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, Watford), 348 acres (worth 911 guineas per annum); *Cambridge, 55 acres (worth 102 guineas per annum); *Kent, 3 acres (worth 9 guineas per annum).''The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, John Bateman, 1883, page 385

References

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