Angus Charles Drogo Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester was a British hereditary peer.
Background
Manchester was the son of Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester, and Nell Vere Stead, and was the younger brother of Sidney Montagu, 11th Duke of Manchester. On 22 November 1961 at Geelong, Australia, Lord Angus Montagu married Mary Eveleen McClure, daughter of Walter Gillespie McClure of Geelong.
Career
Until Angus inherited the dukedom in 1985, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Angus Montagu. Family
There were three children of the marriage: Alexander Charles David Drogo Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester
Lord Kimble William Drogo Montagu (born October 1964), married 1997 Sally Elizabeth Nurse. Children: Emily Elizabeth Beatrix Montagu (born 1999) and William Anthony Drogo Montagu (born 2000)
Lady Emma Montagu (September 1965 – 29 April 2014), married 2001 Lance Hodgkinson Children: Nicholas James Hodgkinson (born 5 November 2002)
In 1971, Lord Angus Montagu married secondly Diane Pauline Plimsaul of Wimborne, Dorset, daughter of Arthur Plimsaul of Corfe Mullen in the same county.
In 1989, Manchester married thirdly Anne-Louise Taylor, formerly Mrs Bird, daughter of Doctor Alfred Butler Taylor of Cawthorne, Yorkshire.
She is now Anne-Louise, Duchess of Manchester. On 22 April 2000, at the Swedish Church, Mayfair, in London, the Duke of Manchester married fourthly the former fashion model Biba Hiller (born Jennians on 3 February 1942).
Biba, Duchess of Manchester, died of cancer aged 61 on 11 October 2003. After a preparatory school in Wales, he was educated at Gordonstoun School, before serving for three years in the Royal Marines.
After that he had jobs in the oil industry and in tourist-related activities, and was variously engaged as a clothes salesman, a barman, and a “crocodile wrestler”.
Various. The Duke served time in prison in the United States of America for fraud. The Duke established together with photographer Allan Warren the Duke"s Trust, a charity for children in need. In his book The Splendour and Squalor, Marcus Scriven wrote that towards the end of his life, Montagu"s weight had swelled to 21 stone (130 kg).
1938–1985: Lord Angus Montagu, 1985–2002: His Grace the Duke of Manchester. The Duke was also 15th Earl of Manchester, 15th Viscount Mandeville and 15th Baron Montagu of Kimbolton.