Admitted 4 May, 1635.
"Only son of Sir Sidney Mountague of Hinchinbroke, co. Hunts." Born 27 July, 1625. Though his father was a Royalist, Edward supported the Parliamentarian party and raised a regiment of foot and joined his cousin, the Earl of Manchester, in 1643. He took a very active part in all the military and naval operations of his time—was one of Cromwell's colonels and the colleague of Blake in the Dutch wars in 1656. He, however, assisted in bringing back Charles II. to England and was created Earl 12 July, 1660. In 1665 he again took part in the naval operations against the Dutch and was killed in the battle of Southwold Bay, 28 May, 1672.
He had some pretensions to scientific knowledge and contributed Observations of an Eclipse of the Sun at Madrid, 22 June, 1666, to the Philosophical Transactions. He is also said to have translated Barba's Art of Metals from the Spanish.
Admitted 16 November, 1585.
Third son of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton, and grandson of Chief Justice Sir Edward Montagu (q.v.) He was born at Boughton, Northamptonshire. He was Recorder of London and knighted in 1603, and Reader at the Inn in 1606. He was one of the patentees in the patent granted by James I. to the two societies of the Temple, 1609. In 1607 he was appointed King's Counsel and in 1611 Serjeant and King's Serjeant. In this character he took part in the trial of the murderers of Sir Thomas Overbury (q.v.). In 1616 he succeeded Sir Edward Coke as Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in which position it fell to his lot to award execution of the sentence on Sir Walter Raleigh (q.v.), passed fifteen years before. Four years later he succeeded to the lucrative post of Lord Treasurer and was ennobled with the titles of Baron Montagu of Kimbolton and Viscount Mandeville. In this office he remained till the third year of the reign of Charles I., when he exchanged it for that of Lord Privy Seal, having been previously (1626) created Earl of Manchester. He was an active minister of the Crown and a faithful servant of King Charles till his death in 1642.
Admitted 28 October, 1608.
He appears on the Register as "James Mountague, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Dean of the Chapel of the King's Household," and he was admitted "gratis," together with Dr. Buckeridge (q.v.) He was the son of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton, Northamptonshire, and younger brother of Lord Montagu of Boughton (q.v.), and of the first Earl of Manchester (q.v.) He was educated at Cambridge and became Master of Sidney Sussex College. In 1603 he was created Dean of Lichfield, the following year Dean of Worcester, and in 1608 Bishop of Bath and Wells. In 1616 he was transferred to Winchester. He died 20 July, 1618, and was buried in Bath Abbey.
In the literary world he is known as the editor of the works of King James I., published in English in 1616 and in Latin in 1619.
