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The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family George was born at Lackham in 1751 415 . It has been said that “George Montagu was just an upright simple-minded English country gentleman who loved Natural History” 416 but there was far more to him than that. George Montagu was born, in 1751 or 1755 417 , at Lackham. He joined the 15 th Regiment of Foot 418 in 1767, when he was 16 years old and married Mary Ann the eldest daughter of William Courtenay and Lady Jane Stuart, two years later Apparently However, 420 The youthful militiaman seems to have eloped with the even more youthful Ann to Gretna Green 419 415 DNB Vol X p 693 give 1751, Cunnington, W (1852) Memoir of George Montagu WAM III p 87 has 1755 416 Cummings, B F (1912) A biographical sketch of Col. George Montagu (1755-1815) English Field Zoologist Zoolgische Annalen Wurzburg 417 DNB loc. cit gives 1751, Cunnington, W (1852) ibid p 87 has 1755 418 http:/www.pwstubbs.force9.co.uk/15 th /15 th .htm Raised at Nottingham in June 1685 by Col. Sir William Clifton as by Col. Sir William Clifton’s Regiment of Foot. It was then named after the Colonels of the Regiment until 1751, when it became the 15 th Regiment of Foot, in 1782 being renamed as the 15 th (The Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot, in 1881 the East Yorkshire Regiment, in 1935 the East Yorkshire Regiment [The Duke of York’s Own] before finally, in 1958, it was amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment [The Prince of Wales’s Own] to form the Prince of Wales’ Own Regiment of Yorkshire. The West Yorkshire regiment was raised in the same year as the 15th and was formerly known as the 14 th Regiment of Foot. 419 Dance, S Peter (ed) (2005) Letters on Ornithology 1804-1815 between George Montagu and Robert Anstice p18 420 Dance, S Peter (ed) (2005) ibid p223 en5 104
The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family The supposed facts of GM’s apparently clandestine marriage to Ann Courtenay, like some other suppositions concerning his early life, are confusing and contradictory, as has been pointed out by Cleevely (1978) 421 . Assuming Ann was not yet sixteen she could not have married GM without her parents’ consent, under English law. In theory she could have done so if she had eloped to Scotland with her lover. Under Scottish law, as then prevailing, anyone over [sic] sixteen could be married without parental consent and Gretna was favoured because it was often the first place young lovers reached when fleeing from England to Scotland Cleevely supports the suggestion of the elopement in his entry on George Montagu in the DNB Ann was a granddaughter of the Earl of Bute, Prime Minister to George III. By this time George Montagu had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant 422 . Shortly after the marriage the regiment was sent to America 423 , this was during the American War of Independence and it was here that the Regiment earned one of its nicknames, The Snappers “The Regiment had exhausted it’s supply of musket balls, but still had powder. They were told to keep “snapping” which was the act of charging a musket with powder only and firing it off (rather similar to today’s blank ammunition). By doing this the Regiment convinced their attackers that they still had 421 Cleevely RJ (1978) Some background to the life and publications of Colonel George Montagu (1753-1815) Archives of Natural History * (4) pp 445-480 422 Badeni, J (1992) Past People in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire p67 It isn’t known whether this promotion was involved or a later one, but James Montagu “noted [in his will] that he had already spent £1,500 to advance his son George in the Army” 423 Cunnington, W (1852) Memoir of George Montagu WAM III 105
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