The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation ; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.

The dilapidated Old Montagu House was demolished and work on the King's Library Gallery began in 1823.

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.

In 1721 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had imported variolation to Britain after having observed it in Istanbul, where her husband was the British ambassador.

The practice was introduced to the west by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( May 26, 1689 – August 21, 1762 ).

One such relationship was between Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who wrote to Anne Wortley in 1709: " Nobody was so entirely, so faithfully yours ...

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.

The Rosetta Stone was transferred to the sculpture gallery in 1834 shortly after Montagu House was demolished and replaced by the building that now houses the British Museum.

Montagu was made Earl of Sandwich on 18 June, and the position of Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board was secured by Pepys on 13 July.

This was thanks in part due to William Montagu Manning ( Chancellor 1878 – 1895 ) who argued against the claims by British Tax Commissioners.

This kind of inoculation and other forms of variolation were introduced into England by Lady Montagu, a famous English letter-writer and wife of the English ambassador at Istanbul between 1716 and 1718, who almost died from smallpox as a young adult and was physically scarred from it.

This time, Edward was forced to flee when he learned that Warwick's brother, John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, had also switched to the Lancastrian side, making Edward's military position untenable.

Her sister-in-law ( born The Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott ) was given special dispensation by HM The Queen to use a similar style when she was widowed (" HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ") despite not being a princess by birth, rather than the more usual widow's style, " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester ".

Her daughter Charlotte was placed in the care of a governess, in a mansion near Montagu House in the summers, and Caroline visited her often.

However, when the source was traced by Ashley Montagu, it was found to lack a verifiable connection to Hooke.

He himself was at Coventry, preparing to bar Edward's way to London, while Montagu hastened up behind the King's army.

Montagu died in the battle, and Warwick was cut down trying to reach his horse to escape.

John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, was less ambitious than his brother Warwick, but a more capable warrior and tactician.

Mr Montagu, on the other hand, in a long letter to the Viceroy, passed the blame to Michael O ' Dwyer and admitted " I feel that O ’ Dwyer represents a regime that is doomed.

His relation, Dr. John Montagu, was then Master of Trinity College, and took him under his wing.

Educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Montagu spent some time in travelling, initially going on the Grand Tour round Continental Europe before visiting the more unusual destinations of Greece, Turkey and Egypt which were then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Charles Edward Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, 4th Earl of Manchester ( c. 1656 – 20 January 1722 ), son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded to his father's earldom in 1683.

* John Montagu ( Trinity ) ( c. 1650 – 1728 ), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1683 – 1699

Charles Montagu, afterwards Earl of Halifax, was a fellow of Trinity and an intimate friend of Newton, and it was on his influence that Newton relied for promotion to some honourable and lucrative post.

* Ronald Montagu Burrows ( 1867 – 1920 ), Principal of King's College London ( 1913 – 1920 )

However, in April 2001, due to the cost of maintaining the building, the offices were relocated to a converted outhouse at the Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where they remain today, and where one of the largest and most important collections of material in and about Esperanto is to be found in the Montagu Butler Library.

It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge.

Following the work of the 1850 Commission to examine the organization of the University, All Souls College suppressed ten of its fellowships to create the funds to establish the first two Chichele professorships: The Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, established in 1859 and first held by Mountague Bernard, and the Chichele Professor of Modern History, first held by Montagu Burrows.

It took place with the Bishop of Lichfield ( Thomas Morton ) and the master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge ( John Preston ), representing the opposition to Montagu and Francis White.

Elizabeth Montagu was a granddaughter of Sarah Drake, and she spent much time as a child with the Middletons in Cambridge, as did her sister Sarah Scott.

" Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the literature of social comment " in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740 Ed.

* Lady Elizabeth Montagu ( b. c. 1682 )

He became embroiled in a lively bisexual love-triangle with the politician John Hervey, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .< ref > Rictor Norton, " John, Lord Hervey: The Third Sex ", The Great Queens of History.

Hooke helped Wren rebuild London after the Great Fire in 1666, and also worked on designing London's Monument to the fire, the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Montagu House in Bloomsbury, and the infamous Bethlem Royal Hospital ( which became known as ' Bedlam ').

The museum was opened in 1952 as the Montagu Motor Museum and became a charitable trust in 1972.

The viscountcy and earldom became extinct on his death as he had no sons while he was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his nephew George Montagu.

Ronald Ferguson was the second son of Andrew Henry Ferguson ( 1899 – 1966 ) and his wife Lady Marian Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott ( 1908 – 1996 ), a first cousin of Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, who became ( after her wedding to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester ) Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester and an aunt-by-marriage of Elizabeth II.

Known as Britain's oldest car manufacturers, Daimler became the official transportation of royalty in 1898, after the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, was given a ride on a Daimler by John Douglas-Scott-Montagu later known as Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.

Montagu was promoted at once, and Prior, three years later, became secretary to the embassy at the Hague.

David Montagu Erskine ( 1776 – 1855 ) was a member of parliament and diplomat ; Henry David ( 1786 – 1859 ) was dean of Ripon ; Thomas ( 1788 – 1864 ) became a judge of the court of Common Pleas ; Esmé Steuart ( 1789 – 1817 ) fought at the battle of Waterloo where he lost an arm ( his widow Eliza married Admiral James Norton, who also lost an arm in action ).

After Shrewsbury's return to England the duchess became conspicuous in London society, where the caustic wit of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was exercised at her expense.

In 1333 William I de Montacute became Sovereign King of Mann, establishing the Royal House of Montagu.

When the 2nd Duke of Montagu in 1749 died without male issue, the 3rd Duke of Manchester, and his heirs, became heirs general of Drogo de Montaigu, of the Kings of Mann, of the Earls of Salisbury, and of the Barons de Monthermer.

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.

She also became one of the foremost members of the so-called bluestocking group of women engaged in polite conversation and literary and intellectual pursuits, attending the salon of Elizabeth Montagu, where she also met and became acquainted with Frances Boscawen, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Vesey and Hester Chapone, some of whom were to become lifelong friends.

It was first created in the Peerage of England in 1705 for Ralph Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Boughton, with the subsidiary title Marquess of Monthermer, but became extinct in 1749.

Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and lectured at Harvard, Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of California, and New York University.

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 Dukedom, Earldom and Barony of Montagu all became extinct on the death of their son John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, in 1749.

He died in 1845 whereupon the title of Montagu of Boughton became extinct.

His elder brother having predeceased his father, Ralph became Baron Montagu of Boughton on the death of the latter in 1684.