Modern English biography

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