Biography of George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu 1712-1790

Paternal Family Tree: Brudenell

Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden 1562-1643

1752 Creation of Knights

1762 Creation of New Peers

On 16 Jul 1703 Robert Brudenell 2nd Earl Cardigan (age 96) died. His grandson [his father] George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan (age 17) succeeded 3rd Earl Cardigan.

On 26 Jul 1712 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu was born to George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan (age 26) and Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan (age 23) at Cardigan House Lincoln's Inn Fields.

On 01 Aug 1712 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu was baptised at St Giles in the Fields Church, Camden [Map].

On 01 Jul 1726 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 13) was educated at Queen's College, Oxford University.

On 31 Jan 1729 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 16) graduated Master of Arts: Oxford University at Queen's College, Oxford University.

On 07 Jul 1730 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 17) and Mary Montagu Duchess Montagu (age 19) were married. She the daughter of John Montagu 2nd Duke Montagu (age 40) and Mary Churchill Duchess Montagu (age 40). He the son of George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan (age 44) and Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan (age 41).

On 05 Jul 1732 [his father] George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan (age 46) died. His son George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 19) succeeded 4th Earl Cardigan. [his wife] Mary Montagu Duchess Montagu (age 21) by marriage Countess Cardigan.

On 18 Mar 1735 [his son] John Montagu 1st Baron Montagu was born to George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 22) and [his wife] Mary Montagu Duchess Montagu (age 24).

On 29 May 1743 [his daughter] Elizabeth Montagu Duchess Buccleuch was born to George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 30) and [his wife] Mary Montagu Duchess Montagu (age 32).

In 1745 [his mother] Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan (age 56) died.

On 06 Jul 1749 [his father-in-law] John Montagu 2nd Duke Montagu (age 59) died without surviving male issue. Duke Montagu extinct. His estates were inherited by his daughter [his wife] Mary (age 38) and her husband George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 36) who changed his name to Montagu from Brudenell. Monument in St Edmund's Church, Warkton [Map]. Sculpted by Louis Francois Roubiliac (age 46). Erected by his widow, [his mother-in-law] Mary Churchill (age 59), the daughter of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, who stands at the left hand side of the monument.

1752 Creation of Knights

In 1752 King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (age 68) created a number of new Garter Knights:

567th Prince Edward Hanover 1st Duke York (age 12).

568th William Orange Nassau V Prince Orange (age 3).

569th Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 31).

570th Daniel Finch 8th Earl Winchilsea 3rd Earl Nottingham (age 62).

571st George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 39).

William Dalrymple Crichton 5th Earl Dumfries 4th Earl of Stair (age 53) was appointed 42nd Knight of the Thistle.

Richard Onslow 3rd Baron Onslow (age 39) was appointed Order of the Bath.

Letters of Horace Walpole. 23 Mar 1752. Arlington Street. To Horace Mann 1st Baronet (age 45).

Mr. Conway (age 31) has been arrived this fortnight, or a week sooner than we expected him: but my Lady Ailesbury (age 31) forgives it! He is full of your praises, so you have not sowed your goodness in unthankful ground. By a letter I have just received from you he finds you have missed some from him with Commissions; but he will tell you about them himself I find him much leaner, and great cracks in his beauty. Your picture is arrived, which he says is extremely like you. Mr. Chute (age 51) cannot bear it; says it wants your countenance and goodness; that it looks bonny and Irish. I am between both, and should know it; to be sure, there is none of your wet-brown-paperness in it, but it has a look with which I have known you come out of your little room, when Richcourt has raised your ministerial French, and you have writ to England about it till you were half fuddled. Au reste, it is gloriously coloured-will Astley promise to continue to do as well? or has he, like all other English painters, only laboured this to get reputation, and then intends to daub away to get money?

The year has not kept the promise of tranquillity that it made you at Christmas; there has been another parliamentary bustle. The Duke of Argyll (age 69)299 has drawn the ministry into accommodating him with a notable job, under the notion of buying for the King from the mortgagees the forfeited estates in Scotland, which are to be colonized and civilized. It passed with some inconsiderable hitches through the Commons; but in the Lords last week the Duke of Bedford (age 41) took it up warmly, and spoke like another Pitt.300 He attacked the Duke of Argyll (age 69) on favouring Jacobites, and produced some flagrant instances, which the Scotch Duke neither answered nor endeavoured to excuse, but made a strange, hurt, mysterious, contemptuous, incoherent speech, neither in defence of the bill nor in reply to the Duke of Bedford, but to my Lord Bath (age 68), who had fallen upon the ministry for assuming a dispensing power, in suffering Scotland to pay no taxes for the last five years. This speech, which formerly would have made the House of Commons take up arms, was strangely flat and unanimated, for want of his old chorus. Twelve lords divided against eighty that were for the bill. The Duke, who was present, would not vote; none of his people had attended the bill in the other House, and General Mordaunt (age 55) (by his orders, as it is imagined) spoke against it. This concludes the session: the King goes to Hanover on Tuesday, he has been scattering ribands of all colours, blue ones [Note. Reference to being created a Knight of the Garter] on Prince Edward (age 12), the young Stadtholder, and the Earls of Lincoln (age 31), Winchilsea (age 62), and Cardigan (age 39);301 a green one [Note. Reference to being created a Knight of the Order of the Thistle] on Lord Dumfries;302 a red [Note. Order of the Bath] on Lord Onslow (age 39).303

The world is still mad about the Gunnings; the Duchess of Hamilton (age 18) was presented on Friday; the crowd was so great, that even the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs; and people go early to get places at the theatres when it is known they will be there. Dr. Sacheverel never made more noise than these two beauties [Note. Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 18) and Maria Gunning Countess Coventry (age 19)].

There are two wretched women that just now are as much talked of, a Miss Jefferies1 and a Miss Blandy (age 32)2; the one condemned for murdering her uncle, the other her father. Both their stories have horrid circumstances; the first, having been debauched by her uncle; the other had so tender a parent, that his whole concern while he was expiring, and knew her for his murderess, was to save her life. It is shocking to think what a shambles this country is grown! Seventeen were executed this morning, after having murdered the turnkey on Friday night, and almost forced open Newgate. One is forced to travel, even at noon, as if one was going to battle.

Mr. Chute (age 51) is as much yours as ever, except in the article of pen and ink. Your brother transacts all he can for the Lucchi, as he has much more weight there304 than Mr. Chute. Adieu!

Note 299. Archibald Campbell (age 69), Duke of argyll, formerly Earl of Isla.

Note 300. For Lord Hardwicke's notes of this speech, see Parl. Hist. vol. xiv. P. 1235.-E.

Note 301. George Brudenell, fourth Earl of cardigan (age 39), created Duke of Montagu in 1776; died in 1790.-D.

Note 302. William Crichton Dalrymple (age 53), fourth Earl [Note. Mistake. He was 5th Earl] of Dumfries in Scotland, in right of his mother. He also became, in 1760, fourth Earl of stair, and died in 1768.-D.

Note 303. George, third Lord Onslow (age 39); died in 1776.-D.

Note 304. With the late Mr. Whithed's brothers, who scrupled paying a small legacy and annuity to his mistress and child.

Note 1. Elizabeth Jeffries was to have received her uncle's estate but as a consequence of her bad behaviour he stated he would change his will. She, with accomplices, murdered her uncle. She was executed at a temporary gibbet at the Sixth Milestone Epping Forest on 28 Mar 1572.

Note 2. Mary Blandy (age 32) who was found guilty of poisoning her father and executed on 06 Apr 1752.

1762 Creation of New Peers

On 04 May 1762 King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 23) created a number of new peerages ...

Edward Noel 1st Viscount Wentworth (age 46) was created 1st Viscount Wentworth.

William Courtenay 7th Earl Devon (age 53) was created 1st Viscount Courtenay.

Thomas Pelham Holles 1st Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 68) was created 1st Baron Pelham of Stanmer in Sussex with default to his cousin Thomas Pelham (age 34).

Caroline Lennox 1st Baroness Holland (age 39) was created 1st Baron Holland in Lincolnshire. Henry Fox 1st Baron Holland (age 56) by marriage Baron Holland in Lincolnshire.

John Perceval 2nd Earl Egmont (age 51) was created 1st Baron Lovel and Holland of Enmore in Somerset.

[his son] John Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 27) was created 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton in Northamptonshire.

Joseph Damer 1st Earl Dorchester (age 44) was created 1st Baron Milton of Milton Abbey in Dorset.

Edward Hussey-Montagu 1st Earl Beaulieu (age 41) was created 1st Baron Beaulieu of Beaulieu in Hampshire with a special remainder to his heirs male with his current wife [his sister-in-law] Isabella Montagu Duchess Manchester (age 56).

On 12 May 1762 George Venables-Vernon 1st Baron Vernon (age 53) was created 1st Baron Vernon of Kinderton in Cheshire. Martha Harcourt Baroness Vernon of Kinderton (age 46) by marriage Baroness Vernon of Kinderton in Cheshire.

George Fox Lane 1st Baron Bingley (age 65) was created 1st Baron Bingley. Harriet Benson Baroness Bingley (age 57) by marriage Baroness Bingley.

On 05 Nov 1766 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 54) was created 1st Duke Montagu. [his wife] Mary Montagu Duchess Montagu (age 55) by marriage Duchess Montagu. He was the son-in-law of the last Duke of the previous creation John Montagu 2nd Duke Montagu.

On 02 May 1767 [his son-in-law] Henry Scott 3rd Duke Buccleuch (age 20) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Montagu Duchess Buccleuch (age 23) were married at Montagu House Whitehall Palace. She by marriage Duchess Buccleuch. She the daughter of George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 54) and Mary Montagu Duchess Montagu (age 56). They were fourth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 11 Apr 1770 [his son] John Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 35) died unmarried. Baron Montagu of Boughton in Northamptonshire extinct.

On 01 May 1775 [his wife] Mary Montagu Duchess Montagu (age 64) died. Monument in St Edmund's Church, Warkton [Map]. Sculpted by Peter Mathias Van Gelder (age 33). Mary's monument is more decorative that her parent's; Rococo. The composition of the monument centres around an ornate funerary Urn, which stands upon a Pedestal containing an inscription to Mary. To the right sits a grief stricken woman, inconsolable over the loss of an aristocrat considered a great benefactor to the poor and needy. In her left arm she cradles a baby, and a second, tearful child sits at her feet. To the right of the woman is that of an older woman draped in a shawl, who gently caresses the hand of the first babe. To the left of the Urn, an angel comforts the mourners, pointing to heaven.

On 21 Aug 1786 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 74) was created 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton in Northamptonshire.

Before 1790. William Beechey (age 36). Portrait of George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 77) in the Windsor Uniform.

On 23 May 1790 George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 77) died. Duke Montagu extinct. His brother [his brother] James Brudenell 5th Earl Cardigan (age 65) succeeded 5th Earl Cardigan. Elizabeth Waldegrave Countess Cardigan (age 31) by marriage Countess Cardigan. On His grandson Henry James Montagu Scott 2nd Baron Montagu (age 13) succeeded 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton in Northamptonshire. Jane Margaret Douglas Baroness Montagu by marriage Baroness Montagu of Boughton in Northamptonshire.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. The wicked Countess and her lover lived at Clieveden [Map] - "the bower of wanton Shrewsbury and of love" - and her spirit is supposed to haunt the beautiful riverside retreat, but I am thankful to say she has never appeared in the old home of her innocent girlhood. Her portrait by Sir Peter Lely hangs in the White Hall at Deene, and is a fine example of the artist's well-known very décolleté style of "robes loosely flowing, hair as free", with the usual mise en scène of a beauty of Charles II's time. The [his father] third Earl of Cardigan was Master of the Buckhounds to Queen Anne; he married a [his mother] daughter of the [his grandfather] Earl of Ailesbury, and their [his brother] fourth son inherited the Ailesbury title and estates. Lord Cardigan's eldest son married the [his former wife] heiress of the [his former father-in-law] Duke of Montagu in 1766 [Note. Married on 07 Jul 1730. He was created Duke in 1766]. He was a friend of Horace Walpole, the influence of whose pseudo-Gothic tastes may still be seen in the south front of Deene [Map], built at this time, and which now incorporates the great ball-room built for me by my dear husband.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. The fourth Earl was succeeded by his [his brother] brother John, whose nephew, the sixth Earl, was the father of my husband, James Thomas Brudenell, seventh Earl of Cardigan.

Royal Ancestors of George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu 1712-1790

Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of William "Lion" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France

Ancestors of George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu 1712-1790

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Brudenell

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Brudenell of Doddington in Huntingdonshire

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Brudenell 1st Earl Cardigan

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Brudenell 2nd Earl Cardigan 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tresham 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Tresham 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Catesby

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Tresham Countess Cardigan 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Throckmorton 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Muriel Throckmorton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hussey Baroness Hungerford 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England

GrandFather: Francis Brudenell 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Savage 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Savage 1st Baronet 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Manners 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anna Savage Countess Cardigan 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Darcy 2nd Baron Darcy Chiche 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Rich

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Kitson

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Kitson Countess Rivers

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cornwallis

Father: George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Savile 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Savile 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Savile 1st Baron Savile 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Hussey 9 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Hussey 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Saye 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Savile 1st Earl of Sussex 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Carey 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Carey 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joyce Denny 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Carey Baroness Savile 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet of Charlton Wiltshire 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Baroness Geneville Beaudasert 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Pickering 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

GrandMother: Frances Savile 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Villiers of Brokesby

Great x 4 Grandmother: Collette Clarke

Great x 2 Grandfather: Christopher Villiers 1st Earl Anglesey 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Beaumont 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Beaumont 1st Countess Buckingham 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Armstrong

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Villiers Countess Sussex 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Sheldon of Howley in Leicestershire

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheldon Countess Anglesey

George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Bruce

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Bruce 1st Lord Kinloss

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Bruce 1st Earl Elgin

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Bruce 2nd Earl Elgin 1st Earl Ailesbury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Chichester 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Chichester 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Denys 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Chichester 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harington 1st Baron Harington

Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Harrington

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Keilway Baroness Harington

GrandFather: Thomas Bruce 3rd Earl Elgin 2nd Earl Ailesbury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Mother: Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Seymour 1st Earl Hertford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Seymour 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Grey Countess Hertford Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Seymour 2nd Duke Somerset 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Honora Rogers

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Seymour 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 1st Earl Essex 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Lettice Knollys Countess Essex 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Walsingham 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Walsingham Countess Essex 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ursula St Barbe

GrandMother: Elizabeth Seymour Countess Elgin and Ailesbury 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Arthur Capell 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Capell 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Grey 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Arthur Capell 1st Baron Capell Hadham 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Theodosia Montagu 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harrington

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Morrison 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Morrison 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothea Clerke

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Morrison Baroness Capell Hadham 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Hicks Lady Cooper

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden