It was named for Lt. Col. Robert Monckton, the British officer who had captured nearby Fort Beauséjour a century earlier.

In 1755, nearby Fort Beausejour was captured by English forces under the command of Lt. Col. Robert Monckton.

The town was named for Lt. Col. Robert Monckton, but a clerical error at the time the town was incorporated resulted in the misspelling of the community's name, which has been perpetuated to the present day.

In the second decade of the century, the influences of operetta and the English followers of Sullivan such as Lionel Monckton made themselves felt, in works such as Molinos de viento and El asombro de Damasco ( both by Pablo Luna ), before the Spanish tradition was reasserted in Vives's Doña Francisquita ( 1923 ).

While the Massachusetts provincial governor William Shirley was given the task of fortifying Fort Oswego and attacking Fort Niagara, Sir William Johnson was to capture Fort St. Frédéric ( at present-day Crown Point, New York ), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton was to capture Fort Beauséjour on the frontier between Nova Scotia and Acadia.

The Lady Eve was loosely based in a 19-page story by Monckton Hoffe called " Two Bad Hats ", which was also the working title for the film.

Monckton Hoffe, who wrote the original story for The Lady Eve, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story.

Peel's acolyte Monckton Milne MP said of Villiers at the time of this concession during 1842 that he was " the solitary Robinson Crusoe sitting on the rock of Corn Law repeal ".

Nightingale was courted by politician and poet Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing.

In July he had advised the King's legal counsel, Walter Monckton, against the divorce but his advice was ignored.

The Rodiad, on flagellation, was published by John Camden Hotten in 1871, falsely dated to 1810 and ascribed to Colman ; the true author seems to have been Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton.

While in Britain, Adams was befriended by many noted men including Charles Lyell, Francis T. Palgrave, Richard Monckton Milnes, James Milnes Gaskell, and Charles Milnes Gaskell.

He was a member of the Apostles ' Club, his fellow-members including Tennyson, A. H. Hallam, Monckton Milnes, W. H. Thompson, Trench and James Spedding.

Gates served under Cornwallis when the latter was governor of Nova Scotia, and also developed a relationship with the lieutenant governor, Robert Monckton.

In 1759 he was made brigade major to Brigadier General John Stanwix, a position he continued when General Robert Monckton took over Stanwix's command in 1760.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS ( 19 June 1809 – 11 August 1885 ) was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.

At this time Patmore's father was financially embarrassed ; and in 1846 Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton obtained for Coventry the post of printed book supernumary assistant at the British Museum, a post he occupied for nineteen years, devoting his spare time to poetry.

In February 1842 Villiers was called by Monckton Milne MP the " solitary Robinson Crusoe standing on the barren rock of Corn Law repeal ".

Born Valerie Hamilton Monckton, she was the only daughter of Mary Adelaide Somes Colyer-Ferguson and Sir Walter Monckton ( later 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley ).

Lord Dudley married firstly in 1891 Rachel Anne Gurney, born in 1868, daughter of Charles Henry Gurney ( born 5 November 1833 ) and Alice Prinsep, sister of Laura Gurney, wife of Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge, 4th Baronet Troubridge, and maternal granddaughters of Sir Henry Thoby Prinsep ( 1793 – 1878 ) and wife ( m. 1835 ) Sara Monckton Pattle ( Calcutta, 1816-Brighton, 1887 ).

* Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley ( born 1952 )

Timothy David Robert Monckton ( born 1955 )

Joshua Francis Rowley, local politician and public servant: born 31 December 1920 ; Deputy Secretary, National Trust 1952-55 ; succeeded 1962 as seventh Bt ; chairman, West Suffolk County Council 1971-74 ; vice-chairman, Suffolk County Council 1974-76, chairman 1976-78 ; Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk 1973-78, Lord-Lieutenant 1978-94 ; married 1959 The Hon Celia Monckton ( one daughter ); died Hadleigh, Suffolk 21 February 1997.

Shortly after his arrival in London Gray introduced himself to Monckton Milnes, afterwards Lord Houghton, with whom he had previously corresponded.

* The Geisha, 1896, m Sidney Jones and Lionel Monckton, l Harry Greenbank, b Owen Hall ( 760 in London ) ( The second longest-running piece of musical theatre ( after Dorothy ) until it was edged out by San Toy in 1899.

* The Shop Girl, 1894, m Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, l Adrian Ross, lb H. J. W. Dam ( 546 in London ) ( one of the first of the innovative Gaiety Theatre, London musicals produced by George Edwardes in the 1890s )

* Sir Henry Thoby Prinsep ( 1793 – 1878 ), merchant and civil servant, Bengal Civil Service, named director of East India Company 1849, served on the Council of India 1858 – 74, son of patriarch John Prinsep, lived at Little Holland House, Kensington, London, one of London's sought-after salons of the age, and The Briary, Isle of Wight, amateur oil painter, married in 1835 to Sarah Monckton Pattle ( Calcutta, 1816-Brighton, 1887 ), and brother-in-law of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron

Monckton died on 21 May 1782 at age 55 and is buried in St. Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington, London.

His son, the fifth Viscount, discontinued the use of the surname of Arundell by Royal licence in 1826 and instead obtained permission for each successive holder of the title and his eldest son to use the surnames Monckton-Arundell while the younger branches of the family should use Monckton only.

Crewe was the son of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton by his wife the Hon.

His son, the seventh Viscount, represented Nottinghamshire North in the House of Commons as a Conservative and was also an Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. In 1887 he was created Baron Monckton of Serlby, in the County of Nottingham, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him and his descendants an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

Edmund Gambier Monckton, fourth son of the fifth Viscount, and as he was a member of a younger branch of the family he was named only Monckton, in accordance with the rules obtained by the fifth Viscount.

He is the grandson of Marmaduke John Monckton, third son of the Hon.

Edmund Gambier Monckton, fourth son of the fifth Viscount.

He had also an illegittimate son with Julia Fane, wife of Robert Monckton ; their son was the 1st Viscount Galway.

Lord Crewe was the only son of the noted Victorian literary person Richard Monckton Milnes.

This title passed to her son by her previous marriage, the Earl of Carlisle, and not to her stepson, Viscount Monckton.

Monckton was a younger son of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway ( 1695 – 1751 ) and the brother of the distinguished soldier and colonial administrator Robert Monckton.

The composer was Ivan Caryll, with additional music by Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Aubrey Hopwood ( son of John Turner Hopwood ) and Harry Greenbank.

Robert Monckton was the second son of Elizabeth Manners and John Monckton ( later the first Viscount Galway ) and, like many second sons of British aristocrats, he entered military service.

* Sir Walter Monckton 1956 – 1957

She married firstly George Josslyn L ' Estrange Howard, 11th Earl of Carlisle, and secondly Sir Walter Monckton.

It was created in 1957 for the lawyer, Conservative politician and former Minister of Defence, Sir Walter Monckton.

* Sir Walter Monckton ( 25 May 1945-26 July 1945 )

Munshi, India ’ s envoy and agent general to Hyderabad, and the Nizam ’ s envoys, Laik Ali and Sir Walter Monckton.

John fell from grace when he left his wife and went on to marry Mary or Margaret Monckton, who was the daughter of Sir Francis and Margaret Monckton of Kent.

He accompanied Sir Walter Monckton, advisor to the Nizam of Hyderabad, to India in 1946 and 1947, in the run up to Indian independence.

On that same day, Schellenberg reported that Sir Walter Monckton, an old friend of the Duke, had arrived, evidently tasked by the British government to speed the Windsors toward the Bahamas as soon as possible.

Other distinguished speakers who addressed the society in the course of the 20th century include Baron Friedrich von Hügel, Fr Ronald Knox, Fr Martin d ' Arcy, Sir Alec Guinness, Arthur Michael Ramsey, HRH The Princess Royal, Rowan Williams, John Finnis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Lord Longford, Immanuel Jakobovits, Viscount Monckton, Maurice Wiles, Terry Eagleton, William Rees-Mogg, Hans Adolf Krebs, Basil Mitchell, Dorothy Hodgkin, Auberon Waugh, Richard Southern, F. R.