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Rh Geo. Wroughton, Esq.; and grandson of Admiral John Montagu, himself the great-grandson of Hon. Jas. Montagu, third son of Henry, first Earl of Manchester, ancestor of the present Duke of that name. He is brother of Lieut.-Colonel Geo. Wroughton Wroughton, of Wilcot, co. Wilts, and of ; and brother-in-law of the late Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore, K.C.B., by the marriage to that officer of his eldest sister, Georgiana, now a Bedchamber Woman to Queen Adelaide. One of his uncles, James, was killed in command of the 74 in the action of 1 June, 1794; and another, Edward, Lieut.-Colonel of Artillery, Hon.E.I.Co.’s service, fell at the storming of Seringapatam in 1799. Capt. Montagu is second-cousin of the present

This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in 1803; and embarked, about 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn; in which ship, on 27 Sept. in that year, he witnessed the capture, in the Bay of Biscay, of the French frigate Le Président of 44 guns. In Feb. 1807 he became Master’s Mate of the 74, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett; and on 9 Oct. 1809, after having been employed off Cadiz and on boat-service at the defence of Rosas, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 31 March, 1810, to the 64, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, attached to the force in the Baltic – 29 Oct. following, to the  36, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, under whom he served off the coast of Ireland and made a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope – and, 18 Dec. 1811, 14 June, 1812, and 29 March, 1814, to the 74, Capt. Robt. Rolles, 32, Capt. Thos. Garth, and 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore, all stationed in the Mediterranean. On 29 Jan. 1813 he commanded one of the boats of the at the capture of a trabaccolo, armed with 2 guns, and deeply laden with corn and flour for the garrison of Corfu; he assisted, in the following May, in bringing out from under a martello tower, to the southward of Brindisi, a vessel mounting 1 6-poundcr, from Otranto bound to Ancona; and on 28 of the same month, taking charge of two boats belonging to the, he participated, in conjunction with two others under the orders of Lieut. Wm. Henry Nares of the 38, in a most determined and gallant attack upon a convoy protected by 11 gun-boats near Otranto, where the cliffs were covered with French troops. In the Lieut. Montagu served at the blockade of Venice and at the capture of Corfu. Attaining the rank of Commander 31 May, 1814, he was successively, 1 and 31 March, 1819, appointed in that capacity to the and  sloops; in the latter of which, until posted, 30 Nov. 1820, we find him actively employed in the suppression of smuggling. He assumed command, 7 June, 1828, of the 28, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned in the summer of 1832; and he was lastly, from 23 Nov. 1839 until March, 1841, employed in the  120 and  110, as Flag-Captain to Sir Edw. Codrington, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Montagu married, 12 March, 1840, Isabella Elizabeth, daughter of Chas. Geo. Beauclerk, Esq., of St. Leonard’s Forest, Sussex, by whom he has issue.

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is son of the late Admiral Robt. Montagu; and a descendant of Admiral Sir Henry Montagu, M.P., who was created Earl of Sandwich as a reward for his loyalty in inducing the fleet to declare in favour of King Charles II. Commander Montagu’s grandfather, John, fourth Earl of Sandwich, was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1763, and again from 1771 to 1782.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 Dec. 1819, as Midshipman, on board the 46, Capt. Wm. Augustus Montagu. After serving for two years and a half in that frigate on the coast of North America, he was next, from July, 1822, until Dec. 1825, employed in the sloop, and colonial brig, in surveying the west coast of Africa, in cruizing in suppression of the slave-trade, and in civilizing the natives of Madagascar. Between 1 Jan. 1826, in the course of which year he passed his examination, and 3 Aug. 1827, Mr. Montagu appears to have been attached, at Portsmouth and on the coast of Ireland, to the 104,  yacht. cutter, and yacht; the latter under the command of the present Sir Chas. Malcolm, by whom we find him officially described as a young officer of high promise, “zealous, manly, and steady in the performance of his duty.” He obtained a Lieutenant’s commission on 18 Sept. in the year last mentioned; and was subsequently appointed – 25 Aug. 1828, to the 10, Capts. Russell Henry Manners and Edw. John Johnson, employed on the coast of Portugal – 26 Oct. 1830, to the 78, Capts. Jas. Hillyar and Donald Hugh Mackay, in which ship he continued for about three years on the Home station – 16 Aug. 1834, as Second-Lieutenant (a rank he had for some time held in the ), to the 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, with whom he served for two years, chiefly in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon – 20 Aug. 1839, for 12 months, to the Coast Guard in Norfolk and Kent – and 19 Aug. 1841, as Senior, to the 44, Capt. Sir John Marshall, fitting at Chatham. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and has since been on half-pay.

Commander Montagu is married and has issue. – Frederick Dufaur.

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entered the Navy, 6 April, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capts. Chas. John Moore Mansfield and Robt. Williams; with whom he continued employed on the