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The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family will. In a codicil 445 James Montagu stated my brother George shall not live at my Mansion at Lackham unless he shall live and cohabit with his wife. Things proceeded well for a time – sometime in 1797 the Rev. Samuel Denne, FSA, wrote to a friend that he was staying with Colonel Montagu who had been left by his brother a noble house built within the last five years situated in the midst of a good estate and the manor extensive to the river Avon meandr’ring by a considerable part of it 446 and in November of that year Ellen Whitfield records that she “call’d at Lackham on Col. and Mrs. Montagu 447 “. How long George and Mary lived at Lackham is uncertain, but George Montagu moved to Knowle, near Kingsbridge in Devon, in 1800, 448 to live with Elizabeth Dorville. 1800 was not a good year for George Montagu – he and his eldest surviving son George Conway Courtenay Montagu fell out. The fact is that he was a colonel, an upright and honourable man, with a mind perhaps a little too conscious of its own rectitude, very susceptible to outrage, and a temperament somewhat irate according to type 449 445 Badeni, J (1992) Past People in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire p67. The original will did leave Lackham clearly to George, but the codicil was added 4 th July 1797 446 Nichols, JB (1831) Illustrations of the Literary history of the Eighteenth Century Vol 8 p719 447 http://www.derekjones.org/1797.pdf p49 Saturday 25 th November 1797 448 Badeni, J (1992) ibid p71 449 Cummings, B F (1912) A biographical sketch of Col. George Montagu (1755-1815) English Field Zoologist Zoolgische Annalen Wurzburg 110
The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family Although the Trustees had enforced the codicil in the will and title of the estate passed to George Conway, George junior brought a suit against them for failing in their duties and colluding with his father, allowing him to strip the assets of the estate. 450 This and further litigations eventually resulted in the sale of the estate, but effectively the estate was under the control of the Trustees while the court cases were going on and remained so of the rest of the Montagu ownership.. George Montagu lived at Knowle for the rest of his life. During this period his major books appeared and he was constantly busy with his studies. His most popular, and the earliest, was a treatise on duelling 451 – from which it can be taken that “although we have no definite facts to go on it seems probable that he was an expert duellist” 452 During the period when there were fears of an imminent invasion by Napoleon’s army George was involved; he was appointed Lt. Col and Commander of the Dorset Guides in 1804 453 and organised the defence of that county. Although George was living at Knowle he is known to have been at Lackham after this - July 1813 Wednesday midnight, as George Montague, Esq, of Lackham near Laycock was shooting in company with a Gentleman who was on a visit at his house Mr Montague’s gun accidentally went off and lodged its contents in the body of his friend who survived only a short period Mr M’s state of 450 Badeni, J (1960) Wiltshire Forebears p69 451 The Sportsman's Dictionary; or a Treatise on Gunpowder and Fire Arms, &c. London, 1792, re-printed in 1803 452 Cummings, B F (1912) A biographical sketch of Col. George Montagu (1755-1815) English Field Zoologist Zoolgische Annalen Wurzburg 453 London Gazette January 7 th 1804 p334 111
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