The programme itself is not presented as a documentary, but during the in-character commentary on the DVD release, Alan explains that it is in fact a " post-documentary "; all the events depicted in the series took place, but everyone in the show, apart from himself and his personal assistant Lynn Benfield ( played by Felicity Montagu ), were actors hired to portray them " after they had actually occurred ".

Henry Goodman played Cohn, Nick Reding played Joe, Felicity Montagu played Harper, Marcus D ' Amico played Louis, and Sean Chapman played Prior.

It was described as a " surreal " moment when the real Montagu addresses his fictional persona, played by Webb.

Montagu himself appeared in the film adaptation of The Man Who Never Was, playing an Air-Vice Marshal who disparaged his own character ( played by Clifton Webb ) in a briefing.

The Dutch respected the neutrality of the port, played the Wilhelmus and saluted Montagu three times with white smoke.

Controversy around Montagu's positions played an important part in the period 1625 – 9, both in publications and in political moves, and was one of the issues setting the tone for the reign of Charles I. Montagu had the open support of three bishops ( John Buckeridge, John Howson, and William Laud ).

Other key characters were played by Terrence Hardiman, Jeremy Northam, Stuart McGugan, Felicity Montagu, Mark Anstee, Trevor Peacock and Nigel Le Vaillant.

Richardson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne where he played football for Montagu and North Fenham Boys club.

John Gay ridiculed the eclogues of Ambrose Philips in his Shepherd's Week and Mary Wortley Montagu wrote six " Town Eclogues ", substituting the fashionable society of contemporary London for Virgil's rural Arcadia.

When Montagu reached Hedgeley Moor he had an army of five or six thousand men.

It had six prominent members: Montagu ( who emerged as overall leader in 1697, the same year that the last Tory, Godolphin, was removed from office ), Somers, Wharton, Romney, Orford, and Shrewsbury.

Montagu remarried in London on 18 October 1862 to Elizabeth Wade ( Holton, Suffolk, 15 May 1839 – London, 29 December 1908 ), daughter of William Wade of Holton, Suffolk, and had six more children.

The title of Duke of Montagu has been created several times.

Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG ( 27 July 1625 – 28 May 1672 ) was an English Infantry officer who later became a naval officer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1660.

The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu.

Montagu claimed the English fleet had 2000 cannon and 6000 men, a claim which made little impression, as it was obvious he was exaggerating the true size by about three times.

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.

With the acquisition of Montagu House the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 1759.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

These changes came about partly as the result of the urgings of Edwin Samuel Montagu, an influential anti-Zionist Jew and secretary of state for India, who was concerned that the declaration without those changes could result in increased anti-Semitic persecution.

* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).

The objects were soon discovered to be too heavy for the floors of Montagu House ( the original building of The British Museum ), and they were transferred to a new extension that was built onto the mansion.

* 1709: Of the fair sex ... my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them — Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters to Mrs Wortley lxvi 108.

* Austen Chamberlain ( to 1917 ), and then Edwin Samuel Montagu – Secretary of State for India

Edward's army made rapidly for London, pursued by Warwick and Montagu.

Panelists for the seminar were Kerouac, James A. Wechsler, Princeton anthropologist Ashley Montagu, and author Kingsley Amis.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

Her first son, Henry Pole, was created Baron Montagu, another of the Neville titles ; he spoke for the family in the House of Lords.

The title Earl of Sandwich was created in 1660 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir Edward Montagu.

Nevertheless the damage incurred — including the death of Admiral Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich — was so extensive that the Allies would be prevented from executing major naval actions for the rest of the season, apart from a failed attempt to intercept the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) Return Fleet from the Dutch East Indies.

He had been a staunch public supporter of Lord Edward Montagu and his lover Peter Wildeblood after the two were jailed for breaking anti-gay laws in the early 1950s, and visited them regularly in prison.

Anthropologist Ashley Montagu wrote in 1988 that for some Mongoloids the " nose is flatter at the root ( the miscalled bridge ) and the slight fold of skin over the median part of the eye, the Epicanthic fold, is preserved.

Dryden, Lord Somers and Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax took an interest in Addison's work and obtained for him a pension of £ 300 to enable him travel to Europe with a view to diplomatic employment, all the time writing and studying politics.

" He continued, " I have never mentioned the boy's name except to Probyn, Montagu and Knollys when they were acting for me and I thought they ought to know.

He acted as electoral agent for Samuel Montagu in Whitechapel at the General Election of 1886, and for Jane Cobden, who stood for election to the London County Council as a Liberal candidate in 1889.

The early interest in observing birds for their aesthetic rather than utilitarian ( mainly food ) value is traced to the late-18th century in the works of Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick, George Montagu and John Clare.

The Montagu family, a West Country family with roots going back to the Conquest, held extensive lands in Somerset, Dorset and Devon.

It was fought at Hedgeley Moor, north of the village of Glanton in Northumberland, between a Yorkist army led by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu and a Lancastrian army led by the Duke of Somerset.

The Duke of Somerset tried to ambush Montagu near Newcastle but the latter was able to evade this attempt.

The First Quadrille at Almack's: a French print supposedly representing Lady Jersey, Lady Anne Smith | Lady Worcester, Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort | Lord Worcester and Ranald George Macdonald | Clanronald Macdonald, though Gronow says it was danced by Lady Jersey, Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue | Lady Susan Ryder, Miss Montgomery and Lady Harriet Butler, with the Count St Aldegonde, Mr Montagu, Mr Montgomery and Mr Charles Standish.

The next year he was made Auditor of the Exchequer, and the year after created Baron Halifax, of Halifax in the County of Yorkshire, with remainder to his nephew George Montagu.

He was made Baron Montagu, of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon, and Viscount Hinchingbrooke, at the same time, also in the Peerage of England.

The judge Sir Edward Montagu's ( c. 1485 – 1557 ) grandson, Sir Henry Montagu ( c. 1563 – 1642 ), who served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench as well as Lord High Treasurer of England and Lord Privy Seal, was in 1620 raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, of Kimbolton in the County of Huntingdon, and as Viscount Mandeville.

In 1786 he was also created Baron Montagu, of Boughton in the County of Northampton, with remainder to the younger sons of his daughter.

On his death, the Dukedom and Marquessate became extinct, the Barony of Montagu passed according to its special remainder, and the Earldom and other titles passed to his younger brother, the 5th Earl, who on 17 October 1780 had been created Baron Brudenell, of Deene in the County of Northampton, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Montagu had already been created Baron Halifax, of Halifax in the County of York, in 1700, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to his nephew George, son and heir of his brother Edward Montagu.

Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, in the County of Hampshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

In 1907 Montagu was raised to the peerage as Baron Swaythling, of Swaythling in the County of Hampshire.

His son ( who by now was styled Marquess of Monthermer ) had been created a peer in his own right in 1762 as Baron Montagu, but died unmarried in 1770, and, with no male heirs, Montagu was created Baron Montagu, of Boughton in the County of Northampton, with a special remainder to the younger sons of his daughter, who had married Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.