Admitted 8 June, 1683.
Fifth son of the Hon. George Montagu of Westminster and the Middle Temple, and grandson of the first Earl of Manchester (q.v.). He was born 2 Feb. 1665-6 and was called to the Bar 14 June, 1689. In 1702 he removed to Lincoln's Inn, of which Society he was elected a Bencher on his attaining the rank of Solicitor-General, 1707. As counsel he was engaged in the celebrated cases of the Aylesbury men, the prosecution of Robert Fielding for bigamy, and the trial of Dr. Sacheverell. On the accession of George I. he received the degree of the Coif and was raised to the Bench as a Baron of the Exchequer 22 Nov. 1714. On the resignation of Earl Cowper (q.v.), he was nominated a Commissioner of the Great Seal, and in May, 1722, he became Chief Baron. He, however, died the following year.
Admitted 27 November, 1607.
Second son of Henry Montagu, knight. Recorder of the City of London (afterwards first Earl of Manchester {q.v.)). He was admitted the same day as his elder brother Edward (q.v.), being then but four years old. On leaving Cambridge he went to continue his education abroad, where, subsequently, he was employed in diplomatic missions. During one of these visits (in 1635) he became a convert to the Roman Church. In 1643 he was imprisoned in the Tower by order of Parliament and in 1649 banished for acts deemed treasonable. He retired to France, where, by the interest of the Queen Dowager, he became Abbot of St. Martin, near Pontoise. In this capacity he was able to give relief to many indigent Royalist exiles. He died in Paris 5 Feb. 1676-7.
Admitted 22 October, 1635.
Second son of Edward, first Baron Montagu (q.v.), of Boughton, Northamptonshire. He was born about 1619. He entered the Middle Temple from Cambridge, and was called to the Bar 11 Feb. 1641. He represented Huntingdon and Cambridge University in Parliament and was made Attorney-General to the Queen in 1662. He became a Bencher of the Inn on 9 May in the same year, Treasurer in 1663, and Reader in 1664. In 1676 he was called to the degree of Serjeant and became Chief Baron of the Exchequer, from which position, however, he was removed for political reasons in 1686, when he returned to the Bar and practised as a Serjeant. He died in 1706.
Admitted 10 August, 1613.
On the Register he is entered as "George Montaigne, S.T.P., Dean of Westminster Cathedral," to which office he was preferred by James I. in 1610. Though of unknown parentage he received a University education and obtained, as his first preferment, the chaplaincy to the Earl of Essex. By the favour of James he rose rapidly and in 1617 was made Bishop of Lincoln, in 1621 Bishop of London. From the latter see he was appointed to Durham by Charles I. in 1627, but the see of York falling vacant a month after, the king transferred him there, being moved thereto, it is said, by a hint from the prelate, conveyed in the text, "Hadst thou faith as a grain of mustard seed.
