Vol 3 - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Manor of Lackham Vol 3 : The Montagu family
Three of the boys went into the military – George and John into the
Navy and Edward into the Army.
George went out to the West Indies with Admiral Parry 278 and in 1771
was in command of his father’s flagship Fowey in the early years of the
American War of Independence – at this time there were three closely
related Montagu’s in North America, Admiral John Montagu, his son
George and John’s nephew, George the naturalist – see below. George
junior married his cousin Charlotte, daughter of George Wroughton. 279 .
274 Sir George Montagu (12 Dec 1750, Lackham – 24 Dec 1829) followed in his father’s
footsteps and was an Admiral; he fought on the British side in the American
Revolution and against France and Spain. He had a command rôle in the famous action
of Howe’s Grand Fleet. He married his first cousin, Charlotte Wroughton. It was he
who was president of the Court Martial that censured Vice Admiral Sir Robert Calder
in December 1806. [The European Magazine 1806 p77]
275 Who has his own entry in the DNB, as a Naval Officer. He was killed in Montagu at
the Battle of Ushant, 1/6/1794
276 20/2/1755 Lackham , married Barbara Fleetwood at Masulipatam, Madras India
17 May 1792 (Dodson, VCP (1946) List of the Officers of the Bengal Army,
1758-1834 vol III pp312-313 ). They had three children – Edward born Bengal
17/7/1796, John born Cawnpore in Bengal 21/8/1797 bap. 8/1/1798 and George
baptised in Bengal 6/12/1798 (all from Baptismal Records, Madras British Library,
Oriental and India collection microfiche N1/1/4 p196 (Edward) and N1/1/5 p103
(John) p106( George). Barbara died 3/8/1848 aged 77. Edward senior had a long and
distinguished military career in India, ending up as Lt. Col in command of Artillery. He
has an entry in DNB where his career is detailed (also outlined in Dodson 1946 ibid).
Died 8 May 1799 of wounds received in action at the siege of Seringapatam 6 days
earlier.
277 Information kindly provided by Mr & Mrs Mondt, USA . See also DNB vol VII
278 Dictionary of National Biography XII p705 George was in Preston
279 George and Charlotte had a daughter and four sons.
The eldest son George died in 1871; and the second son, John, followed in his father
and grandfather’s footsteps and joined the Navy, becoming an Admiral. He died in
1868.
Their daughter Georgina married Sir John Gore – of the line related to the Earls of
Arran, not the Wiltshire Gore’s. Admiral Sir John Gore was Commander in Chief in
71