Background
Montagu was the eldest son of George Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich, and his wife Alberta (née Sturges), and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Montagu was the eldest son of George Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich, and his wife Alberta (née Sturges), and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Eton College; West Downs School. Trinity College.
In 2015, it was revealed that he was cautioned for indecently assaulting a child for a period of two years between 31 December 1970 and January 1972. In 1926, he joined the 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment as a Lieutenant. He briefly served in France in 1940, during World World War World War II A year later, he was elected Member of Parliament for South Dorset, replacing Viscount Cranborne, who was called up to the House of Lords.
A radical backbencher, Montagu set up the Tory Reform Committee in 1943, and was its founding chairman until a year later.
Montagu was elected in the following five general elections, and continued as Member of Parliament for South Dorset until 1962 when his father died. Montagu succeeded to his titles and could no longer sit in the Commons.
Lord Sandwich disclaimed his peerages in 1964, however, under the Peerage Acting, which was passed a year earlier. He unsuccessfully stood as Conservative candidate at Accrington at the 1964 general election.
Although he did not sit in the House of Commons again, Montagu was President of the Anti-Common Market League from 1962-1984.
He also joined the Conservative Monday Club in 1964 and wrote The Conservative Dilemma in 1970.
lieutenant was at this time he wrote Essays in Tory Reform, a response to the party"s moves toward liberalism.
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40th United Kingdom Parliament.
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A member of the Conservatives, Montagu was Private Secretary to the Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, from 1932 to 1934 and Treasurer of the Junior Imperial League from 1934 to 1935.