MONTAGU, John (son of Edward Montagu, lieut.-col. of artillery H.E.I.C., fell at Seringapatam 10 May 1799). b. 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Cheam, Surrey, and Parson’s Green, Middlesex; ensign 52 foot 10 Feb. 1814, present at Waterloo; captain 40 foot 7 Aug. 1823, sold out 10 Sep. 1830; went to Van Diemen’s land 1823; clerk of the executive and legislative council 1826–9 and 1830–2; colonial sec. of Van Diemen’s land 1834 to 25 Jany. 1842; colonial sec. at Cape of Good Hope 23 April 1843 to death; author of correspondence between J. Montagu and the director of public works relative to the erection of a bridge across the Derwent 1841. m. April 1823 Jessy dau. of major general Edward Vaughan Worseley of Whippingham, she was granted a civil list pension of £300, 23 Oct. 1854. He d. London 4 Nov. 1853. bur. Brompton cemet. 8 Nov. Biographical memoir of J. Montagu. By W. A. Newman (1855) portrait.
MONTAGU, John William (2 son of admiral sir George Montagu, G.C.B. 1750–1829). b. 18 Jany. 1790; entered navy 1803, captain 30 Nov. 1820; flag captain to sir E. Codrington in the Britannia and Queen 1839–41; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Seend manor house near Melksham, Wilts. 12 Dec. 1882.
MONTAGU, Montagu (2 son of Montagu Montagu of Little Bookham, Surrey). b. 1787; entered navy 6 April 1799; acting flag lieut. to sir J. T. Duckworth in action off St. Domingo 1806, lieut. 5 March 1806; commander on h.p. 13 June 1815; retired with rank of captain 10 Jany. 1853; author of Tributary verses on the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon 1814; California broadsides 1850. d. Bath 31 July 1863. G.M. xv 383 (1863).
MONTAGU, Oliver George Powlett (3 son of 7 earl of Sandwich 1811–84). b. 18 Oct. 1844; cornet 9 lancers 1 July 1863; cornet royal horse guards 4 Aug. 1865, major 1 July 1881, lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1885, placed on h.p. 18 Jany. 1891; colonel in the army 18 Nov. 1886; served throughout Egyptian campaign of 1882, medal with clasp; a well known personage in London society; went to Egypt for his health Dec. 1892, telegraphed a touching farewell to his old regiment. d. Cairo 25 Jany. 1893. Graphic 28 Jany. 1893 p. 63, portrait.
MONTAGU, Sir William Augustus. b. 1785; entered navy 4 Sep. 1796, captain 12 Oct. 1807; in command of the Terpsichore 28 guns in East Indies beat off Sémillante French frigate of 40 guns March 1808; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.H. 5 Oct. 1830; K.C. 17 Jany. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1832; vice admiral 17 Aug. 1851. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii 407 (1852).
MONTAGUE, Henry James, stage name of Henry James Mann (son of Henry Mann, his mother Ann Mann d. 24 Dec. 1878 aged 70). b. about 1843; clerk in the Sun fire office, London; appeared under name of Maxwell at Astley’s theatre as junior counsel for the defence in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 26 Jany. 1863; played at St. James’s 1864–5; the original Launcelot Darrell in Eleanor’s Victory 29 June 1865; the original Clement Austin in Henry Dunbar 9 Dec. 1865, Sir Charles Ormond in Love’s Martyrdom 25 April 1866, Captain Trevor in The Whiteboy 27 Sep. 1866, Frank Aldersley in The frozen deep 27 Oct. 1866, and Mars in Olympic games 25 May 1867, all at Olympic theatre; the original Dick Heartley in Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, and Frank Price in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868 which ran 106 nights, Waverham in Tame Cats 12 Dec. 1868, and Lord Beaufoy in School 16 Jany. 1869, all at Prince of Wales’s; the original Sir George Medhurst in After dark, at Princess’s 12 Aug. 1868; opened the Vaudeville theatre with David James and Thomas Thorne 16 April 1870, playing George Anderson in A. Halliday’s comedy For love or money, made a hit as Jack Wyatt in Albery’s Two Roses 4 June 1870; lessee and manager of Globe theatre 1871–4; played Tom Gilroy in Byron’s Partners for life, opening night 7 Oct. 1871 and numerous other original parts; gave dramatic readings at Hanover sq. rooms; played in U.S. of America 1874–6 and 1876 to death; played Jack Wyatt in London 27 July 1876; founded convival clubs in London and New York; toured with a company playing Diplomacy in U.S. of America 1878. d. San Francisco 11 Aug. 1878. E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 258–61 (1881); Saturday Programme 30 Aug. 1876 p. 5, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ix 555, 596 (1878) portrait, x 6 (1878) portrait; Theatre, ii 208 (1878).
MONTALBA, Henrietta Skerrett (youngest dau. of Anthony Rubens Montalba). b. 63 Oakley st. St. Pancras, London 1856; studied sculpture at South Kensington and in the school of the Belle Arti at Venice; pupil of Jules Dalou, French sculptor in London; the greater part of her work was executed in terra-cotta; exhibited portraits and fancy busts at the R.A., Grosvenor gallery, New gallery and elsewhere; her last work a lifesize figure of A Venetian boy catching a crab was exhibited at the R.A. 1893 and at International exhibition Chicago same year; resided latterly at Venice. d. the Palazzo Trevisazz, Zattere, Venice 14 Sep. 1893. bur. near her father in cemetery of St. Michele; the Princess Louise painted her portrait and presented it to the academy of Ottawa in Canada. Art Journal, July 1894 pp. 215–7, portrait; Graphic 28 Oct. 1893 p. 530, portrait; Queen 7 Oct. 1893.
MONTALEMBERT, Charles Forbes René, Count de (son of Marc René Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India, d. 21 June 1831, m. 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of H.E.I.C.) b. Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber 1836; representative for Doubs in the National assembly 1848; condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un debat sur l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded 21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre 1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmerston 1856; The monks of the west from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867; St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow 1874 and 40 other works. d. Paris 13 March 1870. Mrs. Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert 2 vols. (1872); English Cyclopædia, iv 307 (1857), Supplement 1872 p. 902; Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire, xi 484, 485 (1874).
MONTEAGLE, Thomas Spring-Rice, 1 Baron (elder son of Stephen Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard near Limerick d. Sep. 1831). b. Limerick 8 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; studied for the bar; M.P. Limerick 1820–32; M.P. Cambridge 1832–9; under sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 5 April 1828; sec. of treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 5 June 1834; chancellor of the exchequer 18 April 1835 to 26 Aug. 1839; comptroller general of exchequer 9 Sep. 1839 to 1865; created baron Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry 5 Sep. 1839; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; fellow of univ. of London 1850 to death; author of Letter to the archbishop of Dublin on the ecclesiastical titles act 1851. d. Mount Trenchard near Limerick 7 Feb. 1866.
MONTEATH, Alexander M. Ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ., and at Haileybury college; entered Bengal civil service 1857; assistant magistrate and collector at Allahabad 1858; under secretary to government of India, financial and home departments 1861–7; director-general of the post office of India 1867, retired 1881; represented India at the postal conference at Berne 1876. d. Broich near Crieff, Perthshire 23 April 1893.