Lord Robert Montagu

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox officeholder 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<ref name="worldroots">van de Pas, Leo. 'Descendants of Henry VIII, King of England', Worldroots.com Retrieved 13 April 2005 Template:Webarchive</ref> 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.<ref name="thepeerage.com">thepeerage.com Lord Robert Montagu</ref> He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with an MA in 1849.<ref>Template:Acad</ref>

Political career

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"A Working Conservative"
As depicted by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, 1 October 1870

Montagu sat as Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire from 1859 to 1874<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and for Westmeath from February 1874 until he retired in 1880.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1867.<ref>Template:Usurped</ref> He was an advocate of protectionist policies.<ref>Pearce, Charles T. Essay on Vaccination. London: Bailliere, 1868.</ref> He was a member of the Carlton Club and the Athenaeum Club.Template:Citation needed

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.<ref>Watt, George. The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1984, pg. 63.</ref> Montagu died 6 May 1902<ref name="worldroots"/> at 91 Queens Gate, South Kensington, London<ref>Illustrated London News, 28 June 1902</ref> and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.<ref>"Notable people buried in Kensal Green Cemetery", Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. Retrieved 13 April 2005 Template:Webarchive</ref>

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