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	MONTAGU, RALPH, 1ST DU... - Online Information article about MONTAGU, RALPH, 1ST DU...
		" prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng.
		Viscount Monthermer and earl of Montagu in 1689.
		property of the dukes of Montagu, the entailed portion passing to the earls of Cardigan.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOL_MOS/MONTAGU_RALPH_1ST_DUKE_OF_c_163.html (1126 words)

	Other Buccleuch Houses
		The house passed eventually into the Buccleuch family and was rebuilt again in 1871 to the designs of Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829-99) for Lord Henry Scott, 2nd son of the 5tth Duke of Buccleuch.
		Ralph Montagu's grandfather, Sir Ralph Winwood was principal Secretary to James I. The oldest part was a tower said to have been built by Sir John de Molines in the reign of Edward III of Richard II, and the house was thought to have been rebuilt by Sir Ralph Winwood.
		In 1731-3 John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, 'erected a large and substatial house with outhouses and appurtenances thereto belonging', with the assistance of Henry Flitcroft (1697 - 1769).
	www.boughtonhouse.org.uk /htm/others/houses.htm (1214 words)

	John Montagu, 1688-1749
		Died without surviving children, and the dukedom of Montagu became extinct.
		After his death, the British national collections were kept in the family's house (`Montagu House') in Bloomsbury.
		This house and the collections became the British Museum in 1759.
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1749_john.htm (84 words)

	Elizabeth Montagu
		Montagu derived from her family a certain distinction: but she enjoyed greater advantage, for a time at least, from the marriage of her maternal grandmother, who took for her second husband the learned and celebrated Dr.
		Montagu's house in Hill Street, in the middle of the last century, the street was not paved, and the road was very much at the mercy of the weather.
		Montagu's on a sofa, leaning on one elbow, in a passive attitude, counting, or seeming to count, the sticks of her fan, as homage and compliments are profusely laid at her feet.
	www.moonstonerp.com /elizabeth_montagu.htm (6054 words)

	Montagu House, Bloomsbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London which became the first home of the British Museum.
		This Montagu House was by some margin the grandest private residence constructed in London in the last two decades of the 17th century.
		Montagu House in Bloomsbury was sold to the Trustees of the British Museum in 1749 and was the home of that institution until it was demolished in the 1840s to make way for larger premises.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montagu_House,_Bloomsbury (435 words)

	Cleaning Services Bloomsbury WC1
		Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the London Borough of Camden, named after a Norman landowner William de Blemund (Blemondisben) who acquired the land in 1201.
		Bloomsbury is also the location of University College Hospital, which re-opened in 2005 in new buildings on Euston Road, built under the government’s public private partnership (PPP).
		The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group (also Bloomsbury Set) of artists, the most famous of whom was Virginia Woolf, who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s, and to the lesser known Bloomsbury Gang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.
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	Dickens' London Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lord Rockingham's house in Grosvenor Square is blockaded against the Gordon rioters (Barnaby Rudge).
		Houses of Parliament (Map: F-6) - The old Houses of Parliament burned down in 1834 and were housed in temporary structures until the present Houses were completed in 1860.
		Haredale appeals unsuccessfully to the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House to imprison Rudge (Barnaby Rudge).
	charlesdickenspage.com /dickens_london_map.html (6289 words)

	Camden
		Agar Town consisted of low-quality housing for poor people, built of the lowest quality materials on 21 year leases, and was generally considered a slum.
		Bedford Square is a square in the Bloomsbury district of the London Borough of Camden in London, England.
		Bloomsbury Square is a square in Bloomsbury, Camden, London.
	www.shortopedia.com /C/A/Camden (1564 words)

	The British Museum at 250
		It took until 1759 for galleries and a reading room to be opened to the public, in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum.
		Montagu House was eventually torn down to make way for a larger building.
		The oldest part of the present museum building, the King's Library formerly housed the library of George III (which has joined the rest of the British Library in St. Pancras) and is renowned as the finest and largest Neo-Classical interior in London.
	www.worldandi.com /newhome/public/2003/december/arpub3.asp (2536 words)

	The British Museum: The Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first Montagu House, architect Robert Hooke (1635-1703), was built c.1676 for Ralph, Duke of Montagu on land purchased from Rachel, heiress of the Earl of Southampton, who married William Russell, later Duke of Bedford.
		Damaged by fire in 1686, Montagu House was restored by a French architect, 'Puget', in the French style.
		King Edward VII's Galleries, fronting Montague Place, were intended as the first phase of an expansion of the Museum which would replace all the surrounding properties, the freeholds of which had been purchased from the Bedford Estates in 1894-5.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /visit/building.html (746 words)

	Montagu House
		The house as illustrated by Campbell subsequently became the British Museum and engravings of it are frequent.
		But the suggestion is here put forward that Evelyn was incorrect in stating that the first Montagu House was burnt to the ground, and that the exterior of the British Museum was intrinsically the same as Hooke's building.
		That the gates to the British Museum were Hooke's original gates seems positive, for the burning of the house would not necessarily destroy the gates, and Hooke's reference to copper balls and iron work for the pavilion chimneys seems to put the question beyond doubt.
	www.roberthooke.org.uk /batten6.htm (1058 words)

	British Museum - Buddhist Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Until 1997, when the British Library opened to the public, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.
		The body of trustees (which until 1963 was chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons) decided on Montagu House as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £20,000.
		The ethnography collections were until recently housed in the short-lived Museum of Mankind in Piccadilly; they have now returned to Bloomsbury and the Department of Ethnography has been renamed the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
	buddhism.2be.net /British_Museum (1871 words)

	Corvus '94 - Natural History Museum
		Beginning in 1756, Sloane's collection was housed in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, the first home of the British Museum.
		The transfer of the natural history collections from Bloomsbury to South Kensington began in July 1880 with the Mineralogy Department.
		Regardless of these difficulties, the Museum's doors were opened to the public in 1881 and the move from Bloomsbury to South Kensington was completed by 1883.
	members.aol.com /corvus1994/nhm.htm (1345 words)

	Pikle - London Cross - 54 - British Museum preserves: Hamlyn's Reading Room and Elgin's Marbles
		Initially, the collections were mostly books and manuscripts, and they were housed in a 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, in Bloomsbury on the site of today's building.
		In the early part of the 19th century, however, with the addition of many foreign antiquities, not least the Parthenon sculptures which were purchased from Lord Elgin in 1816, the museum outgrew Montagu House.
		It houses what are popularly known as the Elgin Marbles from the pediments of the temple of Athena Parthenos, also called the Parthenon.
	www.pikle.demon.co.uk /londoncross/londoncross54.html (984 words)

	British Museum - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The museum first opened to the public on January 15, 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.
		The body of Trustees (which until 1963 was headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons) decided on Montagu House as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £20,000.
		The dilapidated Old Montagu House was demolished in 1845 and replaced by a design by the neoclassical architect Sir Robert Smirke.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=4675 (1043 words)

	Hotels in Bloomsbury, London UK - Select your Bloomsbury Hotel in London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since the 17th Century Bloomsbury (or lomesbury as it was known) attracted many intellectuals from the science and literature fields (Dickens settled here for a while).
		The Bloomsbury literary group (which included Virginia Woolf, EM Forster and Maynard Keynes) founded early 20th Century gave the area credence, whilst now it is home to University of London and many other higher learning establishments.
		The Waverley House Hotel is located in the heart of historic Bloomsbury, and ideal for guests wishing to visit both the West and and City.
	www.visithotels.com /london/bloomsbury-hotels.asp (823 words)

	Famous Libraries
		But of the three or four separate libraries at Alexandria under the Ptolemys, we cannot tell which were burnt in the time of Julius Caesar and which survived till their destruction in or before the fourth century of the Christian era.
		As has been already mentioned, it is in the great houses of the Benedictine Order that we find the largest libraries, such as in England at Bury St. Edmund's, Glastonbury, Peterborough, Reading, St. Alban's, and, above all, that of Christ Church in Canterbury, perhaps the earliest library formed in England.
		The fourteen original cases at Ashburnham House were surmounted by busts of the twelve Cæsars, with Cleopatra and Faustina, and the shelf-marks still bear their name—the type of reference being MS.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles11/manuscripts-7.shtml (3203 words)

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		Buckingham Palace - It houses the offices of those who support the day-to-day activities and duties of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh and their immediate family.
		The Origianl Montagu House of the British Museum was rapidly outgrown.
		The Parliament is composed of two chambers: the House of Lords (the upper house) and the House of Commons (the lower house).
	interzone.com /~cheung/World/UK/UKpla.html (3473 words)

	Architecture of The British Museum - London, England
		These were combined with another collection that the government held, creating a critical mass necessitating a building of its own.
		Montagu House was bought for this purpose in 1754.
		1754 - Montagu House is purchased to house the British Museum.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /UK/England/London/BritishMuseum.html (709 words)

	Museums
		It houses prints, paintings, and temporary exhibitions, as well as one of the largest collections of decorative arts in the world.
		Based in London from 1856, the museum is housed in a building designed by Alfred Waterhouse and erected 1873-80 in South Kensington, London; it has no administrative connection with the British Museum.
		Sir Henry Tate made possible the addition, in 1899, of eight further galleries; and in 1910, through Joseph Duveen senior, the wing to house the Turner bequest of 1856 (which had been in the possession of the National Gallery) was opened.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Tourism/museums.htm (1303 words)

	London, England's Culture, Attractions and Places of Interest
		Apsley House, also known as Number 1, London, was the London residence of the First Duke of Wellington and stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park.
		The house was given the popular nickname of Number 1, London, since it was the first house passed by visitors who travelled from the countryside...
		The Palace of Westminster, on the banks of the River Thames in Westminster, London, is the home of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, which form the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /England/england-interest-london.html (1127 words)

	Beaulieu Palace
		Montagu House in Bloomsbury is acquired by the nation from the Montagus for use as a national musum.
		Montagu House was eventually pulled down because it was too small for its use as a museum.
		A new Montagu House was built in Whitehall, but was demolished after World War II to make way for the Ministry of Defence!
	www.beaulieu.co.uk /beaulieupalace/timeline.cfm?C=17 (160 words)

	BBC/OU Open2.net - History - British Museum history
		Also included in this arrangement was the purchase of the Harley Collection of manuscripts and the housing of the Cottonian collection of books, manuscripts etc, which had been bequeathed to the nation in 1700.
		In 1754 the Trustees purchased Montagu House, a 17th century mansion in Bloomsbury, to house the collections and in 1756 appointed the Museum's first staff under a Principal Librarian, Gowin Knight.
		The increasing importance of the expanding antiquities collections was recognised in 1807 by the establishment of a separate Antiquities Department and in 1808 by the opening of the Townley Gallery to house Classical and Egyptian material.
	www.open2.net /historyandthearts/history/article1_p.html (415 words)

	Aboutlondon.eu - British Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British Museum is home to over seven million objects from all continents illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.
		The Duveen Gallery housing the Elgin Marbles was designed by John Russell Pope, architect of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
		Although completed in 1938 it was hit by a bomb in 1940 and remained semi-derelict for 22 years before reopening in 1962.
	www.aboutlondon.eu /British_Museum_British_Museum.htm (1328 words)

	Bloomsbury Hotels: Budget Bloomsbury hotel accommodation London
		An impressive 18th century townhouse, the Blooms Town House Hotel is uniquely set in the heart of Bloomsbury, adjacent to the British Museum.
		Grange Holborn Hotel London is ideally located on the edge of Bloomsbury between the west end and the financial district.
		The townhouse hotel is located in Montague Street, where the Duke of Montagu built himself a large mansion on the site of what is now the world renowned British Museum.Oxford Str...
	www.hotel-stay.net /Canada/London/Bloomsbury-hotels.htm (387 words)

	British Museum -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The museum is home to over seven million objects covering the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.
		The body of Trustees (which until 1963 was headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons) decided on Montagu House as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for
		Also, at the house in Bayswater where he is supposed to get the papers, Adam has to cope with an assortment of weird characters ranging from butchers to a young virgin intent on seducing him.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-museum.html (1359 words)

	Great Britain Vol. 1
		The houses are very small here and it almost seems that the gardens are as big as the living quarters.
		The National Motor Museum evolved from the Montagu Motor Museum, founded by Lord Montagu in 1952.
		It was originally conceived as a tribute to British Motoring achievement and a memorial to his father, John Scott Montagu, one of Britain’s motoring pioneers.
	www.ddavid.com /alongdesire/gb1.htm (1294 words)

	cremation
		The first was 'A Narrative of the Fire...and of the Methods used for preserving and recovering the Manuscripts of the Royal and Cottonian libraries',(5) compiled by the Reverend William Whiston the younger, the clerk in charge of the records kept in the Chapter House at Westminster, another notorious firetrap.
		The work necessary to prepare Montagu House to receive the Museum's collections proved protracted, and it was not until 1756, immediately before the removal of the Cotton collection to Great Russell Street, that a more systematic examination was made of the Cotton library.
		During the Easter week of 1827, the Manuscript collections of the Museum were transferred from Montagu House to the accommodation in the new Museum building which (until the opening of the St Pancras building) they still occupy.
	www.uky.edu /~kiernan/eBeowulf/ajp-pms.htm (19623 words)

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