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Lord Robert Montagu

Lord Robert Montagu (24 January 18256 May 1902), was a British Conservative Party politician.

Robert Montagu was born at Melchbourne, Bedfordshire on January 24 1825, the second son of the 6th Duke of Manchester and Millicent (née Sparrow). He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated as a MA in 1848.

He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire from May 1859, and for Westmeath from February 1874 until he retired in 1880. He favoured protectionist policies. He was Vice-President of the Committee on Education from March 1867, resigning in December 1868.

He married Ellen Cromie, daughter of John Cromie, at Dublin on February 12 1850. They had four children although their first son, John, died as a child. Ellen died aged 32 on July 11 1857 at Portstewart, County Londonderry. Their son Robert Acheson Cromie Montagu was born in 1854. Montagu remarried in London on October 18 1862 to Elizabeth Wade, daughter of William Wade of Holton, Suffolk.

Montagu was a member of the Carlton Club and the Athenaeum Club.

He died 6 May 1902 at 91 Queens Gate, South Kensington, London and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, three children and one grandson.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–present)
Preceded by
Edward Fellowes
James Rust
Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire
with Edward Fellowes
1859–1874
Succeeded by
Edward Fellowes
Sir Henry Pelly, 3rd Bt
Preceded by
Hon. Algernon Greville
Patrick James Smythe
Member of Parliament for Westmeath
with Patrick James Smythe
1874–1880
Succeeded by
Timothy Daniel Sullivan
Henry Joseph Gill
Political offices
Preceded by
Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry
Vice-President of the Committee on Education
1867–1868
Succeeded by
William Edward Forster

 
 
 

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