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	Buccleuch Houses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Extensions to the house in the 1690's are based upon Louis XIV's Versailles.
		The present house dates from 1812 and was built to the designs of William Atkinson (1773-1839), William Burn (1789-1870) and David Bryce (1803-1876).
		Dalkeith House was built on to an earlier castle by the architect James Smith in 1710 at the behest of Anne Duchess of Buccleuch, widow of the ill-fated Duke of Monmouth.
	www.buccleuch.com /story/houses (266 words)

	Montagu House, Blackheath, c. 1790
		Montagu House is in the Borough of Greenwich
		Montagu House, named after the first Duke of Montagu, the owner in the 18th century, was the amalgamation of two late seventeenth century houses, plus the distinctive addition known as Park Corner House (seen in the painting), which was added in 1729.
		Montagu House was occupied by Caroline of Brunswick, consort to the Prince of Wales (later George IV), from 1799 until 1812.
	www.ideal-homes.org.uk /lewisham/blackheath/montagu-house.htm (96 words)

	Boughton House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boughton House is a country house in the English country of Northamptonshire which belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch.
		Boughton was originally a monastery, but Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice to King Henry VIII, purchased it in 1528 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and began to convert it into a mansion.
		Montagu was a former English ambassador to France, and Boughton House shows strong French architectural influences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boughton_House (236 words)

	Montagu House, Bloomsbury -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, (additional info and facts about Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu) Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu.
		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 (additional info and facts about British Museum) British Museum in 1749 and was the home of that institution until it was demolished in the 1840s to make way for larger premises.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/montagu_house,_bloomsbury.htm (390 words)

	RALPH, 1ST DUKE OF MONTAGU - LoveToKnow Article on RALPH, 1ST DUKE OF MONTAGU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Montagus position was further strengthened in 1705 by the marriage of his son and heir to Mary, daughter of the great duke of Marlborough.
		His London residence, Montagu House, Bloomsbury, was bought by the government in 1753 to hold the national collection of antiquities, and on its site was built the British Museum.
		MONTAGU (or MOUNTAGTJE), RICHARD (1577-1641), English divine, was born at Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and educated at Eton and Cambridge.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTAGU_RALPH_1ST_DUKE_OF.htm (754 words)

	Boughton House Northamptonshire
		His grandson became Lord Montagu in 1621 and was a supporter of Charles I and during the Civil War was imprisoned for a brief period before his death in 1644.
		Montagu's efforts to advance himself lost him his place on the Privy Council and the respect of Charles II and the Duke of York (later James II).
		It was not until the accession of William III and Mary II in 1689 that Montagu was readmitted to the Privy Council.
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/housenorthants_boughton_house.htm (718 words)

	Encyclopedia: British Museum
		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 Â£20,000.
		The dilapidated Old Montagu House was demolished in 1845 and replaced by a design by the neoclassical architect Sir Robert Smirke.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-Museum (5648 words)

	Chawton House Library and Study Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The history of Chawton House can be traced back to the Neolithic period, although we have more reliable printed records on the manor house and estate from the eleventh century.
		He was succeeded by his son Nicholas, who became Lord of the Manor, patron of the advowson (the right of presentation to a vacant benefice) and owner of the greater part of the parish.
		Montagu continued the work of Edward Knight II by replacing the rest of the timber windows and stripping the white stucco render.
	www.chawton.org /history.php (940 words)

	MONTAGU, RICHARD - LoveToKnow Article on MONTAGU, RICHARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Lady Marys journal was preserved by her daughter, Lady Bute, till shortly before her death, when she burnt it on the ground that it contained much scandal and satire, founded probably on insufficient evidence, about many distinguished persons.
		16381709), English diplomatist, was the second son of Edward, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton (16161684), whose peerage was one of several granted in the 17th century to different members of the Montagu family (q.v.).
		The duke was succeeded by his son John, 2nd duke of Montagu (16891749), who in 1745 raised a cavalry regiment known as Montagus Carabineers, which, however, was disbanded after Culloden.
	44.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTAGU_RICHARD.htm (1560 words)

	Route 62 ~ Montagu
		In 1983 it was restored to its former glory, and as a section of the Montagu Museum, it depicts the lifestyle of the late 19th century.
		The now-popular Montagu bath were originally part of the farm "Uitvlucht" but were sold for the first time in 1857, and have since been in the hands of various hands and bodies.
		The house was declared a national monument in 1975 and was re-opened on 14 October 1983 by State President Marais Viljoen, two and a half years after the flood and 130 years after it had been built.
	www.route62.co.za /montagu.htm (3061 words)

	ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU - LoveToKnow Article on ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU
		In 1742 she married Charles Montagu, cousin of Edward Wortley Montagu and son of the earl of Sandwicha wealthy man, considerably her senior.
		Thanks to her, his Mayfair house became the social centre of intellectual society in London, and her breakfast parties and evening conversaziones gained for her from her admirers the title of The Madame du Deffand of the English capital.
		See Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blue Stockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761, edited by E. Climenson (2 vols, 1906); and R. Huchon, Mrs Montagu and her Friends, 172oI800 (Eng.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTAGU_ELIZABETH_ROBINSON.htm (228 words)

	Montagu Scenic Route Accommodation and Activities Guide Scenic Route Klein Karoo Western Cape South Africa
		Montagu is one of the wine producing towns in South Africa.
		Joubert House which was built in 1853 is generally accepted as the oldest house in Montagu.
		Montagu, once known as "Agter Cogman's Kloof" lies between the Keisie and Kingna Rivers which join at the western extremity of the town.
	scenicroute.co.za /montagu (262 words)

	Ralph Montagu, 1638?-1709
		The second Montagu house (Bloomsbury) was purchased by the government to establish the British Museum, 1753.
		The agent in the betrayal of the Tory minister was Montague, the English representative at Paris.
		The Lady Ambassadress thus distressed was Ralph Montagu's wife, the Countess of Northumberland.
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1709_ralph.htm (1148 words)

	Apollo: 'The Queen of the Bluestockings': Mrs Montagu's house at 23 Hill Street rediscovered
		She [Mrs Montagu] is not only the finest genius, but the finest lady I ever saw; she lives in the highest style of magnificence; her apartments and table are in the most splendid taste...
		Mrs Montagu was the builder of not one but two London houses, one in Hill Street, to the west of Berkeley Square, and, from 1777, the magnificent Montagu House at 22 Portman Square.
		Her elderly husband, Edward Montagu, apparently took little interest, but was generally supportive: 'We shall stay in London about a week getting a plan for finishing a house which we are to have in a street near Berkeley Square, in a street not yet Built...', she wrote.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_498_158/ai_106652584 (1236 words)

	Dickens' London Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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).
	www.fidnet.com /~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london_map.html (6117 words)

	Elizabeth Montagu, 1720-1800
		Bereaved, set up house in London, in explicit attempt to set up a central point for intellect and fashion, 1750; the DNB reports that she invariably gave intellect the precedence of rank, she wrote: `I never invite idiots to my house.' Established `conversation parties' known throughout London.
		At Mrs Montagu's [wrote Fanny Burney in her Diary] "the semi-circle that faced the fire retained during the whole evening its unbroken form, with a precision that made it seem described by a Brobdingnagian compass.
		The lady of the castle commonly placed herself at the upper end of the room, near the commencement of the curve, so as to be courteously visible to all her guests; having the person of highest rank or consequence properly on one side, and the person the most eminent for talents, sagaciously on the other...
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1800_elizabeth.htm (525 words)

	Floridian: His lordship's wheel of fortune
		Walking into the life of Edward, the third Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (otherwise known as Lord Montagu) is akin to entering the pages of an old book, its saffron-hued leaves well worn with the history of its imaginative characters and the many readers who have brought them to life.
		A founder and former chairman of the Historic Houses Association, Edward is a scion of privilege.
		My own encounter with Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (pronounced Byou-lee, which he explains was the original French pronunciation in the 13th century) began in a most remarkable way in 1977, when I had been engaged to perform first aboard HMS QE2, and then at Christchurch Spitalfields in London.
	www.sptimes.com /News/041601/Floridian/His_lordship_s_wheel_.shtml (1439 words)

	The Nassau Guardian - Symonette queries $187,000 spent on Minister's furniture
		Montagu Member of Parliament, Brent Symonette, Wednesday questioned why $187,000 was spent to furnish the Ministry of Financial Services and Investments, an amount not in the government's budget.
		At the time, the Montagu and Mount Moriah MP's began arguing back and forth, forcing House Speaker Oswald Ingraham to stand and bam the table in front of him to get the attention of the arguing members.
		Ingraham charged that the business of the house should not continue in the way that it was going, and not only was the Mt. Moriah MP but "all the Moriahs" were behaving disrespectfully.
	www.thenassauguardian.com /national_local/286955323594797.php (687 words)

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		During the disastrous flood of 1981 the torrential rains caused such damage to the structure of the walls and roof of the house that it was to be demolished.
		The Board of Trustees bought the ruin which was all that remained of the oldest house in Montagu.
		There is an interesting medicinal herb garden behind the house where examples of many local herbs are grown and there is also a nursery where these plants are sold.
	www.museums.org.za /montaguemuseum/page3.html (423 words)

	The DiCamillo Companion - Database: History, Gardens, Movies
		On display in the House is an important model of a proposed Gothic bridge for the Boughton Estate (never built) by William Stukeley, a friend of the 2nd Duke of Montagu.
		Ralph Montagu married a wealthy widow, Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley, an heiress of the earls of Southampton, and was four times British ambassador to the Court of King Louis XIV and a devoted Francophile.
		Boughton House is one of Britain’s largest houses and is frequently cited as the best-preserved historic house in Britain still owned by its original family and open to the public.
	www.dicamillocompanion.com /Houses_hgpm.asp?ID=259 (1233 words)

	The British Museum: The Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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)

	Family and estate collections - M
		The Montagus were a Northamptonshire family, who like their neighbours the Brudenells, first rose to prominence through the law.
		The future Sir Edward Montagu (d.1556) purchased Boughton in 1528 and at the pinnacle of his career was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
		Montagu was absorbed by a passion for French culture and had Boughton and his London House rebuilt in a French manner.
	www.northamptonshire.gov.uk /Community/record/FamcollM.htm?textonly=true (1532 words)

	Family History
		It was perhaps just as well that in these tempestuous years his son, the 2nd Lord Montagu, was of a more retiring nature, content with peacefully managing his estates, and it is only with Ralph (see right), his second son, that the history of Boughton takes a leap forward.
		Ralph Montagu served as British Ambassador to Louis XIV in Paris between 1669 and 1678, and the admiration he developed for French architecture, decoration and landscaping can be seen in the North Front, the Stables and the Park.
		Meanwhile he had succeeded to the Montagu title after his father's death in 1684: he was created Earl by King William, and then in 1705 Duke, by Queen Anne.
	www.boughtonhouse.org.uk /htm/others/family.htm (1107 words)

	Montagu Accommodation / Bed and Breakfast, Guest Houses accommodation in Western Cape , South Africa
		In the morning a scrumptious breakfast (with homemade bread) is served on the terrace under the vines overlooking the garden or indoors.
		A unique rural atmosphere distinguishes Montagu as one of the best-preserved late Victorian agricultural villages in the Cape.
		Now Montagu in the heart of Route 62 attracts many visitors who enjoy the scenery and buildings of a bygone era.
	www.sa-accommodation-finder.com /wcb_malherbe.htm (700 words)

	Nick Balmer's Tour Guide to England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Montagu house was built in the mid 1600’s by the Earl of Montagu with whom we have common ancestors.
		Francis Baber and Edward Montagu were both married to daughters of William Whitmore who was a Lord Mayor of the City of London in the 1620’s or 30’s.
		Montagu house was built on the site of a 35-acre field once called Baber field.
	www.baberfamilytree.org /Balmer/tour.htm (3238 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)

	Voyages In Time, Family, Friends & Places
		According to Jan Struther, her parents' house was the one facing, at the end of the street, with the pair of clipped bay (it is presumed) trees over the front door.
		According to Beaulieu estate records, the house contained a very large, ornate and curious altar “in honour, it was thought, of Pan himself ”.
		Further reading of the Appendices to Elizabeth Montagu's memoirs reveals that by the spring of 1920, Dame Eva was sufficiently close to Lord John Montagu for the widower to feel comfortable in enlisting her support on social occasions.
	www.zip.com.au /~lnbdds/home/pansgarden.htm (1529 words)

	Montagu, The, Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill, 30 Portman Square, London, W1A 4ZX - www.restaurant-guide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Montagu is the buzzy restaurant that provides the setting for eating at a wide variety of tastes in the Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill, one of the capital's prestigious hotels.
		A four-month renovation, completed in May 2005, takes its name from Montagu House, former home to Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, noted 'bluestocking' and socialite and her husband Edward, Grandson to the first Earl of Sandwich, whose home was incorporated into the site.
		The Montagu is in some ways a gentleman's club shorn of its pomposity and sepulchral silence, and replaced with jollity and laughter, a real fun place to be not least because of the quality of the food and surroundings, and providing a real lift to the area.
	www.restaurant-guide.com /42199 (666 words)

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		The main seat of the Montagus was Boughton House, Northants., although estate administration was mainly by way of a London agent.
		Being a widower, Ralph Montagu promptly presented himself to her as the Emperor of China and was eventually accepted.
		An early anti-racist, Montagu conducted several 'experiments' to prove that Africans were as capable of education as Europeans.
	www.hants.gov.uk /newforesthistory/beaulieu.htm (1885 words)

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