Lord Robert Montagu
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Lord Robert Montagu PC (24 January 1825 – 6 May 1902) was a British Conservative politician. He served as Vice-President of the Committee on Education between 1867 and 1868.
Background and education
Montagu was born at Melchbourne, Bedfordshire[1] the second son of George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester by his first wife Millicent, daughter of Robert Bernard Sparrow. William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, was his elder brother.[2] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with an MA in 1849.[3]
In 1846 his father as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire commissioned him as a Captain in the disembodied Huntingdonshire Militia.[4]
Political career
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Montagu sat as Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire from 1859 to 1874[5] and for Westmeath from February 1874 until he retired in 1880.[6] He held office under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as Vice-President of the Committee on Education from March 1867 until the fall of the government in December 1868[7] and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1867.[8] He was an advocate of protectionist policies.[9] He was a member of the Carlton Club and the Athenaeum Club.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Family
Montagu married firstly Ellen Cromie, born in 1825, daughter of John Cromie, at Portstewart on 12 February 1850. They had four children although their first son, John, died as a child. Ellen died aged 32 on 11 July 1857 at Portstewart, County Londonderry. Montagu remarried in London on 18 October 1862 to Elizabeth Wade (Holton, Suffolk, 15 May 1839 – London, 29 December 1908), daughter of William Wade of Holton, Suffolk, and had six more children. This second marriage scandalized society, since the former Betsy Wade had been a housemaid when Montagu met her.[10] Montagu died 6 May 1902[1] at 91 Queens Gate, South Kensington, London[11] and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.[12]
References
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- ↑ a b van de Pas, Leo. 'Descendants of Henry VIII, King of England', Worldroots.com Retrieved 13 April 2005 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ thepeerage.com Lord Robert Montagu
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- ↑ Arthur Sleigh, The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List, April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9. p. 46.
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- ↑ Pearce, Charles T. Essay on Vaccination. London: Bailliere, 1868.
- ↑ Watt, George. The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1984, pg. 63.
- ↑ Illustrated London News, 28 June 1902
- ↑ "Notable people buried in Kensal Green Cemetery", Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. Retrieved 13 April 2005 Template:Webarchive
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