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John Montagu
Fifth Earl |
George John Montagu
Sixth Earl |
John William Montagu
Seventh Earl
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c 1740 - 1814 |
1773 - 1818 |
1811-1884 |
 The
Fifth Earl
married twice ...
- first in
1766 to Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Halifax, who bore John
George Montagu (1767-1790), but she died in 1768;
- secondly
in 1772 Mary, daughter of the Duke of Bolton, who bore George
John Montagu, the future 6th Earl,(1773-1818).
Mary died in
1779, the 5th Earl in 1814 and his son only four years later, but
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Louisa,
the 6th Earl's wife, survived her husband George John by 44
years until her son John William the 7th Earl came of age
in 1832.
The eastern
range was severely damaged by a great
fire on the 22 January 1830, but the pictures and furniture
were nearly all saved. The fire started in the fireplace of "the
great-bow room" (i.e. the bedroom formed in the end of the
long gallery), whereupon the house was largely reconstructed under
Edward Blore, the architect, and completed in 1832. The east and
south fronts were now largely refaced, and the semi-circular bow-window
of 1602 was taken down and rebuilt on the south front. A tower
was built at the north-west corner, reducing the length of the
hall, which was much altered.
Blore's drawings
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 The
7th Earl, in 1865 married Blanche Egerton (1832-94)
and they bore two sons - the future 8th
Earl of Sandwich - Edward George Henry Montagu (1839-1916),
who did not marry, and Victor Alexander Montagu (1841-1915)
who became an Admiral.
It is Admiral Victor's son George Charles who became the 9th
Earl.
The 7th
Earl, in 1864, built a billiard room in the inner court, and
a belfry on the roof, etc., but these have since been pulled down.
He also formed
a garden doorway on the south front, using some 13th century stones
for the purpose.
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1865
In view of the approaching marriage of the Earl of Sandwich
to Miss Blanche Egerton, his Lordship distributed a liberal
supply of meat, bread, beer, tea, tobacco, and snuff, for Christmas
merry-making, in the towns and villages around Huntingdon and
Godmanchester, and a large number of invitations were issued
to the tenants and others for a dinner at Huntingdon Corn Exchange
on the Wednesday following Christmas Day, the day of the wedding.
23rd December 1865
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We enter the Victorian period with the birth of Edward George
Henry Montagu in 1839. In 1884 he became the
Eighth Earl of Sandwich
Draw the family
tree of the Montagus showing how the Earldom passed from the unmarried
8th Earl.
Note also
how, although the Earldom traditionally passes only through the
male line, Louisa - as mother to the young 7th Earl - effectively
ran the estate after the death of her husband.
Do you think
inheritance of a title should by-pass the female line?
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