Background
His father was auditor-general of the duchy of Cornwall, while Frederick was Prince of Wales.
His father was auditor-general of the duchy of Cornwall, while Frederick was Prince of Wales.
Eton College; Trinity College.
Foreign Westminster in 1722, for Saint Germans in 1734, for Camelford in 1741, and for Northampton in 1754, and died on 29 May 1759. Her London residence was in Hanover Square. She died 31 May 1780.
Frederick, after being educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge 8 February 1750.
He graduated Master of Arts per literature regional in 1757. To his influence Mason owed his appointment to a canonry at York in 1762.
Admitted a barrister of Lincoln"s Inn in 1757, Montagu became a bencher in 1782. He was Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1759 to 1767, in succession to his father, and for Higham Ferrers from 1768 to 1790.
In 1772, he moved in vain to abolish the fast of 30 January, the date of Charles I"s execution.
The fast was not abolished till 1859. In 1780, he was generally expected to succeed Sir Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley as speaker of the House of Commons. He became a Lord of the Treasury in 1782 under the Marquis of Rockingham, and again in 1783 in the Duke of Portland"s coalition ministry.
He was popular in society, and had literary tastes.
Wraxall describes him as "a man of distinguished probity". On retiring from the House of Commons in 1790, he was made a privy councillor, and lived mainly at his house at Papplewick Hall, which he had rebuilt in 1787.
He expressed approval of Burke"s Reflections on the Revolution in France. He was created Doctorate.C.L. at Oxford on 3 July 1793.
He died at Papplewick on 30 July 1800.
A sister Ann, who died on 10 September 1786, was wife of John Fountayne, dean of York, to whose grandson, Richard Fountayne Wilson, the estate of Papplewick passed, together with the name of Montagu.
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In 1787, he was a member of the committee that prepared the articles of Warren Hastings"s impeachment.