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 SANDWICH. 51 Ambassador to Lisbon, 1678 ; L.-Lieut. of co. Huntingdon, 1683-85 ; L. Lieut, of co. Cambridge 1635-87. He m. Jan. lSGSf") Mary, 4th da. of Richard Boylk), 2d Earl of Cork [I] and 1st Earl ok Burlington [E], by Elizabeth, sua jure Baroness CLIFFORD. He </. Bhortly before Dec. 1688 " in France, and was privately infp-red there," but was bur. t March 16SS/9 at Hiuchiiibroke( h ), tho' according to another account " at Barnwell," where also his wife is said to have been buried, His will pr. March 1 690. III. 1G88. 3. Edward (Montagu), Earl of Sandwich, &c, 1st s. and h.i 6. about Dec. 1670; styled Viscount Hinciiinbroke, 1672-89; etl. at Trin. Coll.. Cambridge ; inc. to the peerage, as above, Dec. 16S8, and was sum. to pari., 19 Dec. lti'.l] ; Master of the Horse to Prince George of Denmark from about 1090 to 1705 ; er. LL.D. of Cambridge, 1702, and D.C.L. of Oxford, 27 Aug. 1702. He H. before 11 July 16S9(Lie. Fac. on 8th) Elizabeth, 2d sister and coheir of Charles Wtc.MOT), 3rd EaRL ok ROCHRSTSR, da. of John, the 2d and well-known Earl, by Elizabeth, da. of John M.vlkt. He </. 20 Oct. 1729 at Burlington, eo. York, and was bur. at Barnwell. Will pr. 1 730. ( c ) His widow d. 2 July 1757 at Hue Vaugirard, Paris,( l1 ) in which city, since his death, she had resided. [Edward Richard Montagu, styled Viscount HiNcni.vnROKE, only s. anil h. b. about 1690 ; ed. privately under the famous Dr. Richard Bentley ; Lieut. - Col. 37th Foot and Col. of the "lst Reg. of Foot Guards; M.P. for Huntingdon 1713-22 and for Huntingdonshire May to Oct. 1722. L. Lieut, of that county. He m.l2 April 1707, Elizabeth, da. of Alexander PornAM, of Littlecot, co. Wilts, by Anne, da. of Kalph (Montagu), 1st DUKE OF MONTAGU. He d. v. p. 3 Oct. 1722, aged about 32, at the Abbey House, Bath, and was bur. with his ancestors.(°) Admon. 1 Dec. 1722. His widow m. 30 July 1728, at St. Giles in the fields, Francis Seymour reflected glory is thrown (posthumously) on two other sons of the lst Earl by the celebrity of the wife of each of them, viz. (1) the eccentric and well-known Lady Alary Wortley Montagu, born Pierrepont, wife of Edward, s. of the Hon. Sidney Montagu and (2) Elizabeth, born Robinson, authoress of the once celebrated " Letters of Mrs. Montai/u," wife of [another] Edward, s. of the Hon. Charles Montagu. ( a ) Pepya writes, 29 April 1667, that Sir George Carteret made the match, and that it is "a great alliance, £10,000 portion," saying, 23 Oct. 1667, " I am mighty pleased with the young lady, being handsome enough," and adding, 13 and 14 March 1667/8, that he " cannot say she is a beauty, not ugly, but is altogether a comely lady enough and seems very good humoured ... a lover of books and pictures and of good understanding." ( b ) Pepya, 1 Nov. 1667, says of him, when young, " I am mightily pleased with Lis sobriety and few words." ( c ) He is erroneously stilted by Luttrell (Diary) to have been dead 29 June 1703. Noblo (in his " Uranycr") speaks of him, as "meek but worthy," but being "so m'ich of a cypher" that he was "put into durance vile in his own house" by his "extraordinary" wife. His character by Macky, when "a tall, thin, black man, about 3a," is that " he was of very ordinary parts ; married the witty Lord Rochester's (laughter, who makes him very expensive, to which Swift adds, As much a puppy as over I saw ; very ugly and a fop." (•) It is said by Noblo (ut supra) that she " partook of all the fire and vivacity of her father, the witty and repentant Earl of Rochester." She, tho' a thoroughly bad »ife, was undoubtedly a popular and clever woman. St. Evremond writes of her, "aussi genereuse que spirituelle ; aussi aimable que genereuse." Pope, too, says, 'as she has been all that a woman of spirit could be, so she still continues that easy and independent creature that a sensible woman always will be ; " And Lord Chesterfield writes of her to his son, in June 1751, " Old as she was when I saw her last, she had the strongest parts of any woman I ever knew ." She was a great Wend of the famous Niuou de l'Enclos. (°) " His father, being confined and denied aocess to, by his ecceutrie Countess, was rendered so much of a cypher that all the duties of his station devolved upon Lord Hinciiinbroke, who was uu amiable, active and spirited young man." [Noble's Vraiu/er:] E 2