Montagu
Montagu names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Montagu the famous lawyer and orator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the famous lawyer and orator, who was Lord Chief - Justice, and created Lord Montagu of Kimbolton, and afterward Earl of Manchester. His son (2d earl) was a general in the parliamentary army, who gained distinction by his victory over Prince Rupert at Marston Moor, but subsequently gave in his adhesion to Charles II. on his restoration. The 4th Earl of Manchester was an enthusiastic follower of William III., fighting with him at the battle of the Boyne, and taking part in the siege of Limerick; he was eventually created Duke of Manchester in 1719 by George I. His descendant, the 8th duke, succeeded to the dukedom in 1890.' The sixth son of Baron Edward Montagu of Boughton was SIR SYDNEY MONTAGU, whose son, EDWARD, was a considerable mathematician, and serving first in the army, then in the navy, became the first sole commander of the English navy, and was created by Charles II. Lord Montagu of St. Neots, Viscount Hinchinbroke, and Earl of Sandwich. His descendant, the 8th earl, succeeded in 1884.
Montagu RT. HON. EDWIN SAMUEL, British statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RT. HON. EDWIN SAMUEL, British statesman; born 1879. Under-secretary of State under Lord Morley, 1910. Chancellor of the Duchy, 1915. Minister of Munitions in the first coalition government, and retired with Asquith, being succeeded in office by Lloyd George. Secretary for India in 1817 after the resignation of Austen Chamberlain. He visited India and in company with the viceroy investigated political conditions to prepare a system of self-government for the people of the country. A joint report on Indian Constitutional reforms was issued in 1918. Secretary for India 1919.
Montagu LADY MARY WORT- LEY, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LADY MARY WORT- LEY, an English author; the eldest daughter of Evelyn, Duke of Kingston; born in Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, England, about married Edward Wortley Montagu, whom she accompanied in 1716 on his embassy to Constantinople, from which place she wrote "Letters" to Pope, Addison, and others. She also first introduced the practice of inoculation for smallpox into England. Her " Letters" place her at the head of female epistolary writers in Great Britain. She died in England, Aug. 21, 1762.
Montagu MRS. (ELIZABETH ROBINSON)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MRS. (ELIZABETH ROBINSON), an English social leader; born in York, England, Oct. 2, 1720. She married Edward Montagu, grandson of the 1st Earl of Sandwich. Her residence in Portman Square was the meeting place of the celebrated "Blue-Stocking Club" (origin of this famous term). Among her visitors and associates were Burke, Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, etc. She wrote three of Lord Lyttelton's "Dialogues of the Dead" (4th ed. 1765); "Letters" (1809). She died in London, Aug. 25, 1800.
Montagu an illustrious English family which sprang from DROGO DE
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an illustrious English family which sprang from DROGO DE
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 of Edwin Montagu as sitting Secretary for India, preparing "a system of self-government" after the joint report of 1918; the resulting Montagu–Chelmsford reforms passed as the Government of India Act 1919, Montagu himself resigned in 1922 and died in 1924 aged 45, and India became independent in 1947. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's importation of smallpox inoculation from Constantinople — she had her own daughter variolated in London in 1721 — ended in the disease's certified global eradication in 1980; her "Letters" are now read as major eighteenth-century prose rather than as the best of "female epistolary writers." The titles the entry tracks are still going: the dukedom of Manchester and the earldom of Sandwich both continue, several holders on from the 8th duke and 8th earl noted here. The 1921 text's "Secretary for India in 1817" is a printer's slip for 1917.
Written for this edition, 2026.